AFC U-20 Women’s Asian Cup qualifiers have had a great start for Bangladeshi women. In their first match, the girls of Turkmenistan were blown away by the representatives of red and green. Won by a huge margin of 4-0 goals.
In this important match, Bangladesh U-20 women’s football team will play without Shamsunnahar, one of the best footballers in the team. However, Bangladesh continued to attack one after the other from the beginning of the match. But could not see the desired goal. Thus ended the 45-minute game.
It seemed that the first half would end with no goals. But in added time, the red-green representatives got the desired goal. Swapna Rani’s shot from outside the box was blocked by Turkmenistan’s goalkeeper for a corner. And the first goal comes from the corner ball. Akalima led the team.
The visitors did not care in the second half. Akalima Khatun doubled the gap by scoring her second goal in the 71st minute of the match. And Swapna Rani Sarkar scored two goals in the 81st and 82nd minutes to make the difference 4-0. The match ended with a 4-0 goal difference.
As a result of this victory, the Bangladesh U-20 women’s team is at number two in the points table. Bangladesh collected 3 points after playing 1 match. Iran girls are at the top of the table with equal points in equal matches. Meanwhile, Turkmenistan is at the bottom of the table without getting any points in 2 matches.
(10 March/MM)