10-man India put up a superb protection of their World Cup qualifying spherical match in Doha on Thursday in a 0-1 loss to Asian champions Qatar.
Abdel Aziz scored within the thirty third minute in a Qatari-dominated match. Both sides performed out a goalless draw of their first leg match right here in September 2019.
Group toppers Qatar, who have not misplaced a single match to this point, had a wave of assaults for a lot of the Indian half with eight to 9 gamers. Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu needed to save a number of instances to maintain the margin brief.
️ GurpreetjiK: “I honestly didn’t (count the number of savings), but I think it was more than last time!”
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– Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) 3 June 2021
India performed with 10 males from the seventeenth minute onwards after defender Rahul Bhake was given a crimson card after the second reserving. He had earlier obtained the yellow card within the ninth minute.
India performed two good strikes within the match from counter assaults with Manveer Singh on each the events.
India captain Sunil Chhetri, who returned to the staff after recovering from the COVID-19 an infection, was changed by Udanta Singh on the resumption of the second half.
Without a win, India stay fourth in Group E with three factors from six matches.
Igor Stimac’s males are two factors behind Afghanistan (third with 5 factors), who performed a 1-1 draw towards Bangladesh earlier within the day.
India will play Bangladesh of their subsequent match on 7 June.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
