Maziya failed to win in home ground

Apr 09, 2014 - 09:18:37 | Shimaz Ali
Gonzalo Marronke celebrating the opener against Maziya today. They won the match by 2-1. (MS Photo: Shimaaz)

Male’, MALDIVES - Maziya Sports and Recreation Club has failed to win their third home game in AFC Cup group F against Vietnam’s Hanoi TandT today after losing the match by 2-1.

Vietnamese champions Hanoi broke the deadlock in the 9th minute when Gonzalo Marronke converted from the spot and Nguyen Van Quyet doubled the lead for the visitors in 21st minute.

The visitors need a win to secure a place in the second round of the tournament and began the game with their attacking intensions clear and took the lead within just 10 minutes.

Samson Kayode then went close to a second on the 19th minute but Maziya goalkeeper Mohamed Imran blocked the ball away for a corner.

Two minutes later the visitors doubled the lead after beating Zhivko and drilled the ball past Imran into the goal.

After the break Maziya worked hard to score a goal and just two minutes before the hour mark referee gave a penalty that Ahmed Mohamed successfully converted.

With this win Hanoi are on top of the table with 9 points from 4 games while, Maziya got just 1 point from 4 games.

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sad on Apr 10
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Maziya should make change in coaching staff if they want to achieve more.Their afc cup campaign will finish with only one point.coach doing his best but he can't do more.Today our team got lucky Hanoi stop playing second half, they just wanted to keep their two goals advantage from firsr half and they menaged.
footballmad on Apr 10
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This is a good result given the team Maaziya has played against. Maaziya seems to be improving in their performance in their tournament. Hope they do even better in the final game.

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