High flying Bangladesh girls take on Arab Emirates Monday
NTV Online
Dhaka: High flying Bangladesh under-16 women's football team face an easy task take on hapless the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in their fourth group C match of the AFC under-16 Women's Championship Qualifiers scheduled to be held on Monday at the country's premier venue Bangabandhu National Stadium.
The match kicks off at 11:00am.
In the day's other two matches of the fixture at the same venue, Islamic Republic of Iran play against Chinese Taipei at 3:00pm while Kyrgyzstan meet Singapore at 6:00pm.
It should be a cakewalk for Bangladesh fixture against the UAE, the comparatively one of the weaker team of this competition and a draw will sealed their fate while they will directly go to the final round but the home fans would be looking forward for another big drubbing.
Earlier, Bangladesh got off to an auspicious start in the competition as they blanked tournament favorite Iran by 3-0 goals in their opening group C match and dumped Singapore by 5-0 goals in the second group match.
The local side maintained their winning run with an overwhelming 10-0 goals victory over Kyrgyzstan in their third group match and cross the major hurdle as they beat tournament favorite strong Chinese Taipei by 4-2 goals.
On the other hand, the UAE made their early exit as they collected only three points from four matches drew with by 2-2 goals with Singapore in their first match and 0-5 goals defeat to Chinese Taipei in their second match.
The UAE then suffered a 0-5 goals defeat to Iran in their third group match but notched a consolation victory as they beat Kyrgyzstan by 3-2 goals in their fourth group match. But the Middle Eastern team would leave no stone unturned to salvage some of their loss pride as they would to put up good fight against host team in front of the partisan crowd.
Bangladesh coach Golam Rabbani Choton said on Sunday, "We know that we are favourite in today's match that does not mean we will take our opponent leniently. Our girls are all hyped up and are looking forward to finish this dream tournament on high note.