Mujibur Rahman Johnny XI instead of Kazem Shah. And with the opportunity to play from the beginning, Bangladesh returned to parity with his goal. Earlier, the hosts fell behind due to captain Tapu Burman's mistake. Ali Fasir also scored today to give Maldives the lead. However, two minutes before the break, Bangladesh went to the dressing room to equalize 1-1 with Jonny's goal.
Javier Cabrera's men fielded a change in the XI at the Kings Arena on Saturday. Canadian expatriate Syed Kazem, who played in the previous match, is not in today's eleven. In his place, Johnny got a chance to play as a substitute in the previous match.
From the beginning of the match, Maldives came out of the shell and played in 4-2-3-1 formation. There was pressing football. In that case, Bangladesh tried to build up and play. Try to attack by creating play from below. However, few have been able to create golden opportunities like the previous match.
So Maldives is ahead of the attack.
Faseer's powerful shot from outside the box narrowly missed the target in the 19th minute.
In the previous match, the goal came in the 18th minute. Today is 23 minutes. Tapu had to pay for his mistakes. Fassir once again broke the hearts of Bangladesh. Tapu's shot fell to the feet of one of the Maldivians, from where Aguan got a pass from the defense and gently put it past the goalkeeper and into the net with his left foot. Tapu tried to stop Fasir, but could not save the goal.
However, Bangladesh gets two opportunities to speak from behind. In the 28th minute, Rakib's shot went wide of the post.
Another chance wasted on 40 minutes. When Fahim placed the ball in Rakib's low cross, the goalkeeper moved a little to the side and resisted with his hand. Morsaline's shot from the return ball goes wide of the post.
Three minutes later, Mujibur Rahman Johnny scored a great goal to fill the gallery with joy. Morsaline's inside pass from outside the box dodged a defender, carved out space brilliantly between four men and rattled the net at the far post. The goalkeeper jumped to the left but could not save the goal.
Bangladesh XI: Mitul Marma, Saad Uddin, Tapu Burman, Shakeel Ahad, Isa Faisal, Sohail Rana, Mohammad Hriday, Mujibur Rahman Johnny, Faisal Ahmed Fahim, Rakib Hossain and Sheikh Morsalin.
