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Bangladesh ready to face India


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Published : 13 Oct 2019 07:27 PM | Updated : 03 Sep 2020 04:50 PM

Bangladesh National Football team, now in India, held a two-hour training session at the Salt Lake Yuba Bharati Training Ground in Kolkata on Saturday morning ahead of their away match of Joint Qualification (Round-1) for FIFA World Cup 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023 against India, reports agencies. 

Bangladeshi booters made physical exercises and practiced with ball crossing, finishing pass, set-piece, goalkeeping and ball possessing in the training session under the supervision of Head Coach Jamie Day. 

Bangladesh will play the match against India at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on October 15. 

The record shows Bangladesh won only two matches against India in South Asian Federation Games 1991 and 1999 while conceded 15 defeats and played out 11 draws since their first meeting in Asian Games 1978.

In their last five meets, Bangladesh conceded three defeats and played out two draws against their neighbors India. 

Bangladesh were put in Group E of FIFA, AFC Joint Qualification along with Qatar, Oman, India and Afghanistan.

The men in red and green started their campaign with a 0-1 goal defeat against Afghanistan in their first away match in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on September 10 and conceded a 0-2 defeat against Asian Champions Qatar in their first home match at a packed Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) on Thursday evening. In the remaining group matches, Bangladesh will play Oman on November 14 in Oman, Afghanistan on March 26 next year in Bangladesh, Qatar on March 31 in Qatar, India on June 4 in Bangladesh and Oman on June 9 in Bangladesh.