Bangladesh national football team on Wednesday practiced at the BangabandhuNational Stadium (BNS) at 10am for FIFA World Cup Qualifying matches and AFC Asian Cup Qualifying round matches that would be staged in 2023.Selected players and official joined the training session except forward Mohammad Ibrahim is now Covid-19 positive. He is under observation and taking full rest.
Assistant Coach Stuart Watkis said, “All players and officials of the national team completed their Covid-19 Test and the result became negative except Mohammad Ibrahim Test positive. I hope he will be cured within shortest possible time.”
“We are confident that we will show better performance against India and Afghanistan. It is our motto to do well in the World Cup Qualifying in Qatar on June 7. We drew with India in the first phase. We must have to win against The Blue Tigers,” he added. Meanwhile, the Goalkeeping Coach Les Cleevely said, “The training was not sufficient at all. The players should more attacking mood and they should not failed in the proper time. So, we must be very careful about the matter.”
Booters should know they must score in the World Cup Qualifying matches against Afghanistan and India.
Coach Jamie Day wants striker should do their level best in these two outings. In match situations, obviously forwards have to do the job up front.
"The qualifying matches in Qatar will be very tough. It is not possible to win if not anyone show the cent per cent in the proceedings. If we want to win, we should perform cent percent.” Captain Jamal Bhuiyan opined.
Asked how they could win matches when forwards could hardly hit the target, win the matches where the forwards could Jamal said: "I don't know about others but I shot on target four times out of five shots. We won't get points if we can't score goals."
