Defending champions India made a successful begin within the 2022 SAFF Women’s Championship and beat Pakistan 3-0 of their opening match on the Dashrath Stadium in Kathmandu on Wednesday.
While a objective from Pakistan captain Maria Jameel Khan broke the impasse within the first half, targets from Dangmei Grace and Soumya Gaguloth opened the match for the Blue Tigress.
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India’s penetration into the Pakistan field by vast channels was the main outlet of their assault. The first objective was a results of that when Sandhya Ranganathan, energetic within the left channel, despatched a low cross which was not dealt with correctly by the Pakistan goalkeeper, Shahid Bukhari and fell in the best way of the attacking Pakistan captain, who was unable to manage it. in time.
Anju Tamang arrange the second objective for India as she despatched a by ball to Dangmei Grace from the sting of the field and the latter dropped the goalkeeper to the close to put up.
In further time within the second half, Pakistan had been unable to manage one other low cross from the left arm, which fell to the proper within the discipline for Soumya Gaguloth, whose left foot strike was sufficient to make it 3-0. was.
Both the groups will now play on Saturday, tenth September as India will play Maldives and Pakistan will face Bangladesh.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
