Sports Desk: The junior (U-16) SAFF Championship season is going to end today. Bangladesh and India will meet in the final. The final will start at 5:30 p.m. Named the reigning champions, India, to ensure that no one else can take their trophy. And Bangladesh is on a mission to win the first trophy for U-16. Bangladesh has already won the trophy twice in this tournament. But then it was under-15. It is now cleared for U-16, but there has been no reduction in status. It can be seen in the same way. As such, this is the eighth season of the children’s series.
India has played in the finals in six of the previous seven editions. Won the trophy four times. India has been the champion for the last two years. Although it is a junior tournament, India has the most experience playing in the finals. Bangladesh is playing the final three times this time. two-time champion. In 2015, Bangladesh won the U-16 title in Sylhet by defeating India in a tiebreaker. Bangladesh was ahead by a score.
If the score is 1-1, the game is decided by tiebreaking. In 2018, Bangladesh beat Pakistan 3-2 in the tie-breaking final of the under-15 final in Nepal to become the champion. This final was also 1-1. Bangladesh, who went ahead with a suicide goal, conceded a goal in the second half and scored a penalty, 1-1. Nepal, which played the final four times in this junior tournament, has now left the group stage after losing two of the two matches. Nepal lost one of them against Bangladesh.
Bangladesh advanced to the semi-finals as India defeated Nepal. Bangladesh defeated Pakistan 2-1 in the semi-final today. Pakistan was the champion of the first edition of the junior tournament held in Nepal in 2011. Bangladesh is facing India twice in the same tournament. Bangladesh started the campaign with a 1-0 loss to India in the first match of the group stage of this tournament.
A tough challenge for Bangladesh to face in the final today. Coach Saifur Rahman Moni from Bhutan said that India’s advantage is that they can hold the ball. Can keep the ball to themselves. Even though we lost 1-0 against India in the first match, we had more chances to score. Moni said, “We had to concede the goal due to a wrong decision by our defender Amit. Amit was overconfident.
However, he played well in the next two matches. paid off Saeed is on the attack. Scored against Pakistan. He can break India’s defense. let’s see So far, so good. Only if you can do well at the end.’
