The touring Bangladesh national women's football team will face the hosts United Arab Emirates (UAE) national women's national team in their second and last international friendly football match today (Sunday), reports UNB.
The match will kick off at 8:00 pm UAE time and 10 pm Bangladesh time at pitch number 1 of the UAE Football Association complex in Dubai. Earlier, the English head coach Peter Butler's youthful and new-look Bangladesh women's team suffered a 1-3 defeat to hosts UAE Women's National team in the first match of the two-match FIFA International Friendlies Series at the same venue Wednesday night.
This was the first match between the two national sides, although Bangladesh women's beat the UAE women's team several times in different age group competitions.
In Wednesday's first match, forward Georgia struck twice, and another forward, Elizabeth, netted the other goal for UAE, while captain Afeida Khandakar scored the only goal for the Bangladesh team from a penalty.
Ahead of the today's (Sunday) match, the Bangladesh women's team made practices in the last two days, focusing on match strategy, team combination, and set piece practices.
The Bangladesh team were determined to put in a stronger performance and is working hard to win the last match, overcoming the lapses in the first match.
Bangladesh squad: Mst. Yearzan Begum, Mile Akter , Meghla Rani Roy, Kohati Kisku, Mst Joynob Bibi Rita, Afeida Khandakar (C), Mst Surma Jannat, Mst Halima Akther, Sapna Rani, Airin Khatun, Most Aklima Khatun, Shaheda Akter Ripa, Ayonto Bala Mahato, Mst Oeyshi Khatun, Tonima Biswas, Most Munki Akhter, Mst Bonna Khatun, Most Sultana,
Kanom Akter, Arpita Biswas Arpita, Sauravi Akanda Prity,
Mariam Binta Hanna, Nabiran Khatun.
