Male’, MALDIVES – Maldives women’s national football team lost their match against regional giants India by 8-0 today in the Women's SAFF Championship. India managed to score just one goal in the first half but after the break they were too good for the Maldivians.
“We played well during the match and we got two or three good chances to score but unfortunately we failed to convert those to a goal.” a team official said to maldivesoccer.com just after the match.
“Some goals were defensive mistakes and fatigue was there.”
Maldives lies in group A along with India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Maldives will play against Afghanistan on Saturday in their second game of the group stage. Meanwhile Bangladesh won their first match against Afghanistan by 6-1 today.
Maldives lost to India by 15-0 in last September during the Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea.
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