Choton looks for more harmony

Hosts Bangladesh will look for a more synchronised performance when they take on Lebanon in the their second Group F encounter of the AFC U-16 Women's Championship Qualifiers at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur today.

The match will start at 11:30am before Vietnam play against Bahrain in the day's second match at 3:30pm.

The match against Lebanon is being considered as a tough test for the girls in red and green, who notched a massive 10-0 win over Bahrain despite looking a bit disorganised in the first half before settling down after the break.

Lebanon have already showed their intention of getting out the qualification round by handing an 8-0 defeat to Bahrain and 6-3 defeat to UAE and they can pose a threat to the charges of Golam Rabbani Choton.     

“I believe the girls will show good performance tomorrow compared to the match against Bahrain. I think Monica Chakma was not up to the mark as she played hurriedly and made mistakes. If she can play better, there will be more rhythm in team's performance,” Choton said. “We are looking forward to rectifying the mistakes we made in the first match. One important thing is that we got more goals in the first match, but at the same time wasted a lot of chances. I think such scoring opportunities will not come against Lebanon and the girls will have to cash in on the chances to ensure victory.”

Choton admitted that Lebanon are a good side and they have some good players like Nathalie Alabed, Zahraa Assaf and Syntia Salha, but the coach believes Bangladeshi girls are ahead in terms of pace, strength and experience.

“The girls will have to give their full effort if we want to win the match. We have to beat all teams if we want to become group champions to go to the next round and we will definitely go there for full points,” said Choton.