SAFF Women’s: Bhutan makes flying start crushing Sri Lanka 5-0
Bhutan made a flying start in the five-nation South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) U-19 Women’s Championship outplaying Island nation Sri Lanka By 5-0 goal in the opening match at the Bir Shrestha Shaheed Shipahi Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur on Saturday.
In the
day’s other match, hosts Bangladesh miserably played to a goalless with Nepal
after dominating the match for most of the proceeding at the same venue
Saturday evening.
With
the day’s feat, the Himalayan country top the list securing full three points
from one match while Sri Lanka was placed bottom with empty hand, playing one
match.
Bangladesh
and Nepal followed the leader securing one point each playing one match each.
In the
day’s opener, Pema Yangzom struck two quick goals in span of one minute in the
21st and 22nd minutes (2-0) while Tshering Choden and Sonam Lhamo netted one
goal each for Bhutan in the 27th and 45th minutes respectively (4-0).
SMK J
Senavige of Sri Lanka scored a suicidal goal in the 85th minute to raise the
Bhutanese tally to (5-0).