Nehru Cup: Maldives 2 - 1 Nepal: Maldives starts Nehru Cup with a win

Aug 23, 2012 - 08:25:58 |
Maldives celebrates after scoring the opening goal (Photo: goalnepal.com)

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Male’, MALDIVES - Maldives got to bright start in the Nehru Cup after beating Nepal in the opening game. Maldives won the game by 2 - 1. Maldives scored an early goal by Assadhullah Abdullah and Ismail Easa scored the second goal to end any hopes of Nepal in the 77th minute. Nepal's only goal was scored in the dying minutes of the game by Jumanu Rai.

Maldives started strong and continued to pressure the defense line of Nepal.

Assadhullah Abdullah scored the opening goal in the 6th minute. It was his first goal for the national team. Ashfaaq’s cross was punched away by goalkeeper, but Assaadhullah got the ball and shot to the empty net.

In the 24th minute, Umair’s free kick was headed well by Ashad Ali. But his header went wide off the post. He was left alone by the defenders of Nepal.

Three minutes later, Umair was booked by the referee, claiming that he dived into the penalty area.

Ashad Ali again took a shot from outside the penalty area, but his shot went too wide off the target.

Akram made a mistake in the 47th minute, but Nepal striker did not manage to take the shot, as Shifan managed to recover back.

Vijoy Gurung missed a superb chance after he got the ball near the edge of the six-yard box in the 48 minute. But his shot went wide off the target.

Ali Ashfaaq dribbled past four defenders and took a shot, but it went across the goal n wide off the target. It was a good chance for Maldives in the 61st minute.

Ismail Easa scored the second goal for Maldives from a superb build up. Ashfaaq gave a good pass to Ahmed Rasheed (Ammadey) and he dribbled past the defenders and crossed into the penalty area, Ismail Easa who was left alone neatly netted the ball. It was also Ismail Easa's first goal for Maldives

Jumanu Rai scored the only goal for Nepal in the dying minutes of the game. Jumanu managed to dribble past the defenders of Maldives and shot past Maldivian goal keeper, Imran.

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al on Aug 23
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Happy we won but from how the game went I feel uneasy about the coming matches. Hope we will win or at least draw against Indians. New players seem to be integrating into the team. Good work rate but we seem to be exhausted towards the end. Ashfaq can do better than that. He seem to be concentrating too much on scoring rather than evading the defenders and making a clear shot.
Gerhard on Aug 23
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Congratulation!
K.P Baiypen on Aug 24
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We badly missed an attacking midfielder of Bonda’s calibre who could supply well-timed balls to strikers. Especially Dhagey, he suffered big time with the lack of good service. In the few good runs he made the ball was not supplied well or supplied late when he was offside. If coach makes appropriate changes from the lessons he had learned from this match we can give a good fight against India. Though revenge is not something we could talk against mighty India 1-3 loss against them in SAFF 2011 is greatly exaggerated due to injuries to important players like Baka. At least we need to go for that the respectable score we deserve. Like may be a draw!
yaya on Aug 24
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this is okey compared to all new young players in the team. the score is okey for me but looking at the game start to finish we lack buildup play, too many useless/careless mistakes and lack support from midfield. i agree with Baiypen we missed someone like bonda. baka had to do all the work and he looked all tired by the end of first 45mins. there was so much space in midfield. im not sure if he can do the same agaisnt the likes of india,syria and cameroon. our defense is mentally WEAK! loose concentration so easily making simple childish mistakes. however given the fact so many new young players i am hoping they would do their best. good luck Maldives. & good luck for nepal too. i admire nepal fan support.

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