Blues pass Eagles test

Male’, MALDIVES – New Radiant Sports Club won tonight’s game in Dhiraagu Dhivehi League by 2-0 against Club Eagles. David and Mohamed Umair scored the goals in the first half of the match.

New Radiant created their first chance of the match in the 7th minute when Fazeel made a stunning header inside the box but it went wide.

Three minutes later David broke the deadlock from a fantastic volley inside the box from a wonderful pass from Dane.

Ibrahim Fazeel missed another goal scoring opportunity in the 18th minute, his diving header inside the box went wide again.

Mohamed Umair doubled the lead in the 32nd minute from a superb shot inside the box.

Five minutes later Eagles Ansar made a good shot on target but keeper Imran punched it away.

Two minutes after the break, Fazeel missed another good chance. His header inside the six yard box went wide.

In the 58th minute Eagles defender Haseeb cleared the cross taken by David and Hamzath made a good shot from the rebounded ball but keeper Faisal saved it.

Four minutes later, Ansar supplied a good ball to Adhuham, but his shot inside the box went over the bar.

Referee Aslam showed a red card to Dane in the 64th minute when he argued with the referee for a foul committed by New Radiant player near the penalty area.

New Radiant’s coach Mika said after the match that the players followed the tactics that he asked them to follow.

“The most important thing is that the players followed the tactics. And in the first half we scored two goals and we created so many good chances.”

When asked about the three red cards in the last two games he replied that he has two answers for that.

“I would say yes and no for this because yes if we don’t want yellow cards and red cards I need to talk to the players not to do so. But we have a target and we need high tempo games and if it goes like that we will see cards and that's the passion of it.”

“I want to thank the supporters and I want to tell them that we are trying to do many new things and just wait for that.”

Eagles assistant coach Shakir said that he was very happy with the performance of the team specially in the second half.

“We are happy with the performance of the team in general but in the second half we played very well.”

“The main problem was that we failed to score goals from the chances that we got. Our key players were injured and we don’t have enough players to replace them and that was the main problem.”