A ten-man India defended creditably properly as they suffered a 0-1 defeat to Asian champions Qatar of their World Cup qualifying spherical match in Doha on Thursday.
Abdel Aziz scored within the thirty third minute in a match utterly dominated by the Qataris. The two sides had performed out a goal-less draw of their first leg match right here in September 2019.
Group toppers Qatar, who’re but to lose a match, had waves of assaults with their eight to 9 gamers within the Indian half for more often than not. Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu needed to pull off a collection of saves to maintain the margin of loss small.
🗣️ @GurpreetGK: “I honestly didn’t (count the number of saves), but I think it was more than last time!”
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— Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) June 3, 2021
India, nevertheless, performed with 10 males from the seventeenth minute onwards after defender Rahul Bheke was pink carded after a second reserving. He had earlier acquired a yellow card within the ninth minute.
India did have two good strikes within the match from counter assaults with Manvir Singh within the thick of issues on each events.
India captain Sunil Chhetri, who returned to the staff after recovering from COVID-19 an infection, was changed by Udanta Singh on the resumption of second half.
A winless India remained in fourth spot in Group E with three factors from six matches.
Igor Stimac’s males are two factors behind Afghanistan (third with 5 factors) who performed out a 1-1 draw towards Bangladesh earlier within the day.
India play Bangladesh on June 7 of their subsequent match.
