Sabina's Bangladesh blew away Singapore

  • Sports Desk, Barta24.com, Dhaka
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Bangladesh women's football team continues to give great games one after another. Sabina Khatun & her troupe continued the winning streak against Singapore in the international friendly match. This time, Bangladesh won 8-0 with power at home.

The Bangladesh team started showing aggressive play from the start of the match held at Kamalapur Stadium in the capital on Monday. Singapore's defense line was confused to deal with one attack after another. However, Tahura and Sabina missed three easy chances in the first 13 minutes despite getting a vacant goal post.

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Singapore attacked first in the 14th minute, but they could not succeed. Tahura Khatun of Bangladesh scored the first goal for the team in the 16th minute. Rituparna Chakma put the ball in the Singapore net in the 17th minute before the shock of the first goal could be handled.

Tahura-Sabina gong kept the edge of the attack strong despite advancing by two goals. In the 24th minute, Tahura Khatun scored her second goal and the third goal for the team. Bangladesh finished the first half from the front. Half time score was 4-0.

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At the start of the second half, Sanjida Akhter attacked again and put the ball into the Singapore net, but her goal was ruled out for offside. In the 56th minute, Sanjida made up for her regrets in the 56th minute, with a powerful shot from the goalkeeper's hand.

Rituparna Chakma brilliantly scored the fifth goal for the team in the 62nd minute. She dribbled past a defender and into the net with a powerful shot into the corner of the near post. Bangladesh advanced by five goals.

Singapore counter-attacked to try to return the match, but they failed to reduce the margin due to the discretion of Bangladesh goalkeeper Rupna Chakma.

Tahura completed her hat-trick in the 70th minute from Rituparna's cross. But this time too her goal was ruled out for offside.

Captain Sabina scored her first goal in the 75th minute from Shamsunnahar's cross.

After conceding half a dozen goals, Singapore changed the goalkeeper in the 78th minute. Although the new keeper made a good save, otherwise Bangladesh captain Sabina could have seen another goal.

In the 82nd minute, Swarnarani Mandal took the field instead of Bangladesh goalkeeper Rupna. In the 87th minute, Sumaiya, a Japanese expatriate of Bangladeshi origin, put the ball into the Singapore net with a great volley.

Shamsunnahar scored her second goal in added time (91st minute) from Rituparna's cross. In this, Bangladesh completed eight goals. Tahura and Rituparna got two goals each. Besides, Sanjida, Sabina, Sumaiya and Shamsunnahar scored one goal each.

With this victory Saiful Bari Titu's disciples won the two-match friendly series 2-0. Bangladesh team did not concede a single goal in two matches and scored a total of 11 goals.