e_Paper, Saturday, August 26, 2017

Bangladesh exit Saff
U-15 Championship
in semi-finals
• Tribune Report
Bangladesh U-15 football team exited
the inaugural Saff U-15 Championship
after losing to host Nepal
3-2 in a thrilling encounter at ANFA
Complex in Kathmandu, Nepal
yesterday.
Silly mistakes from the defenders,
as well as the goalkeeper, saw
the visitor limp out of contention.
At one stage, the tourist were
trailing 3-0 having shipped two
goals within half and hour, but
the junior Bengal Tigers in red and
green showed courage to come
back with two quick goals in the
second half.
Bangladesh conceded the opening
goal with only five minutes into
the clock when a shaky defensive
display from the visiting side allowed
Nepal forward Akash Buda
Magar to score from close range following
Randip Paudel’s low cross.
Akash doubled the lead at the
half hour mark after a shocking
blunder from goalkeeper Emon
Hawladar.
The ball was within touching
distance of Emon but the keeper
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block the cross as Akash made no
mistake tapping home from close
range.
The third goal came as more of a
shocker for Bangladesh as defender
Nazmul Biswas sent the ball into
his own net while trying to clear
Karlos Bakariya’s cross from the
right flank.
Bangladesh managed to reduce
the margin, netting two goals in the
72nd and 73rd minute, and both
came through in-form forward
Faysal Ahmed.
Faysal took a free-kick outside
the right side of the box that beat
the Nepal custodian.
Faysal pulled another back a
minute later with a simple tap-in.
The home side sealed victory
in the sixth minute of injury time
after Birjesh Chaudhary beat Emon
to find the back of the net.
Bangladesh will play their last
match of the event tomorrow in the
third-place deciding match against
Bhutan, who they had beat in the
group stage 3-0.
Nepal will face India in the final
on the same day. •
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Abahani, Ctg Abahani fire blank
• Tribune Report
Holder Dhaka Abahani Limited
dropped points once again in the
Bangladesh Premier League as
they were held to a goalless draw
by Rahmatganj Muslim Friends
Society at Bangabandhu National
Stadium yesterday.
Meanwhile in the day’s other
match, leader Chittagong Abahani
Limited also dropped points, for
the first time in the league this season
as they played out a stalemate
against a spirited Arambagh Krira
Sangha at the same venue.
It was Abahani’s second draw
out of six matches so far this season.
Following the draw, the Sky
Blues remained fourth with 11
points while Rahmatganj also
maintained their previous position
of fifth with eight points from the
same number of outings.
Abahani, who beat Kamal Babu’s
Old Dhaka outfit twice in the
league last season, have been inconsistent
in the league.
They managed to beat strong
clubs like Sheikh Russel Krira
Chakra, Mohammedan Sporting
Club, Saif Sporting Club, but failed
to earn full points against weaker
sides like Farashganj Sporting Club
and Team BJMC.
The Sky Blues dominated the
game, kept possession but the
misfiring forward line denied
them from finding the back of the
net.
Gambian midfielder Landing
Darboe started ahead of Nigerian
forward Emeka Darlington but
failed to make little impact in the
game while national striker Nabib
Newaj Jibon missed some big
chances.
At the half-hour mark, Rahmatganj
midfielder Mohammad Sohel
delivered a precise cross for defender
Monday Osagie inside the
box but the Nigerian failed to connect
from a yard’s distance inside
the six-yard box.
Abahani had a great opportunity
at the hour mark but Jibon headed
over the bar, despite being unmarked
inside the penalty area, after
a pin-pointed cross from Rubel
Mia set the forward in the middle
of the box.
In the 78th minute, Abahani
goalkeeper Shahidul Alam Sohel
made a brilliant block to deny
Guinean striker Ismael Bangoura’s
shot from the box.
The rebound fell onto the feet
of Sohel but the midfielder took a
weak shot that failed to trouble the
defence.
Substitute forward Faysal
Ahmed Shitol hit the crossbar in
injury time.
After five wins in the first five
matches, yesterday’s draw didn’t
change Chittagong Abahani’s position
at the top of table as they
earned 16 points from six matches,
while Arambagh moved to 10th
place with four points from the
same number of games.
Chittagong Abahani managed to
dominate possession but it was the
Motijheel outfit who created more
chances to score.
Mohammad Jewel scripted
the first real attack in the 17th
minute but his right-footed strike
at the near post was saved by the
keeper.
Chittagong Abahani custodian
Ashraful Islam Rana made a brilliant
save in the 76th minute to
deny a close-range header from Alamu
Bukola Olalekaw from Jewel’s
cross.
Substitute forward Sumon Ali
almost took the lead in the 82nd
minute but was unlucky to see his
diving header hit the lower portion
of the woodwork following Bukola’s
cross from the left flank.
One minute before the end of
stipulated time, national winger
Zahid Hossain hit the woodwork
with a wonderful strike from the
right edge of the penalty area. •
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 2017
Archer Suman
seals gold in
Kyrgyzstan
• Tribune Report
DT
Bangladesh archer Ruman Sana
clinched gold medal in the men’s
recurve individual event after
beating his Russian opponent in
the final of an international archery
tournament in Kyrgyzstan
yesterday.
Ruman found it easy against
Nikolayev Alexei of Russia as he
won the game by a dominating 6-0
set victory.
It was the fourth international
goal for the 23-year-old Bangladesh
archer.
Ruman earlier defeated Uzbekistan
opponent Zamshed Sadikov in
the semi-finals.
After making debut for the national
team in 2011, Ruman first
won gold in the recurve individual
event during the Asia Cup stage two
world ranking tournament in 2015.
He won two more golds in the
ISSF International Solidarity Archery
Championship in Dhaka this
year in the team and mixed team
events.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh mixed
team comprising Ruman and Beauty
Roy lost to Tajikistan 5-3 in the
bronze medal deciding match on
the same day. •