Stoppage time drama

I am satisfied with the performance from Maldives, and am proud despite all the difficulty in our football association, we don't have a long term plan ! I feel sad for our future football.

why 8 minutes extra time is amazing? maldives was wasting time. the ball was not played because of faking for more than 12 minutes

Maldives defence and of course goalie were world class! Some of the tackes from Hockey and Shafiu were clinical and very well-timed. We deserved a point from this game and would have done so if the referee hadn't amazingly given 8 minutes added time yet another 2 minutes again! that's another record in FIFA's history.

I watched the game on Dubai Sports and the commentator was very impressed with Imran, Shafiu and Amdhaan. They were all easily the best players on the pitch. I was very happy to see that Popov had obviously been working on defensive drills and closing down of opposition, so this is a huge positive. Among the negatives, I think Ashfaq could have done a lot more to help out the rest of his teammates by tracking back to win the ball instead of staying in Qatar's half all the time. Also, I thought the players, particularly the midfielders were a bit too anxious to play the ball to Ashfaq whenever they received the ball. They should just relax and pass it around before trying to play the killer ball. After all, if the opposition does not have the ball, they cannot score. Also one thing that annoyed me was the playacting by some of our players. No one likes to see that, rolling around on the floor while clutching their face even though everyone knows that there is nothing wrong with them. They do it with the intention of wasting time, but in reality what happens is, the referee adds all of this time to stoppages and delays the end of the match. I hope to see this cut out from our next game against Hong Kong. Let's take this defensive solidity and try to carve out a few good chances against their defense. We can do it!

Despite the goal..i wud praise the supporters..for the wave..superb..im pretty sure my idiotic other user wud comment..oh plx help urself..

It was a good game, we tried to play until 70th minute and due to lack of fitness could not carry on and were under pressure, hence the players started to waste time. I honestly think our team would not do that if we were physically fit for this kind of a match. Anyway good luck in the HK game

we have to praise the players but did you saw our team any football through out the match ? where was the attacking game plan of Popov ? Thought atleast we will threat Qatar defense with dhagey and asadullaa but I'm sorry to say nothing was ther ....... Mr Popov is too young to handle a team like Maldives coz we are v much result oriented now , spectators expects morethan this ...... was a big surprise we couldn't attack a single time with Dhagey on the field for 90' ....... shame on Popov and his team