‘Don’t think we are able to attack from the start’
Despite the difference between Bangladesh and Afghanistan being only 35 places in FIFA Ranking, Afghanistan's have always been considered an excellent side than Bangladesh, solely as a result of their Europe-based players, however the men in crimson and green reached the degrees of their technically and tactically top-quality opponents to snatch a very important level in the World Cup and Asian Cup Qualifiers on Thursday nights in Doha.
Afghanistan's dominant performance found in the reverse fixture found in Dushanbe in 2019 was evidence of their technical and tactical supremacy and before Thursday's match it was hard to find an optimistic person betting towards the boys in crimson and green within their second meeting against Afghanistan on a good fast-paced pitched.
Jamie Day's usual defensive strategy had come under strong criticism, even by Bangladesh Soccer Federation higher-ups, but the British coach collection his expenses up for a present that each football supporter on Bangladesh wanted to see in all games despite the fact that the 41-year-old said that yesterday's game was going to be harder compared to the Dushanbe match.
"The boys played extremely well and I guess we got the tactics proper," Jamie Day time told The Daily Star, disagreeing that he previously the choice to attack Afghanistan from the start. "No, [it is] extremely hard, if we play wide open soccer against the better workforce, they'll punish us. Rather than staying in the overall game like yesterday [Thursday] and obtaining a point, we'd have lost. Let's be happy with the performance and end result."
"I personally don't believe we are able to attack better teams and players from the start although another coach might have a different approach. I think it is better to end up being in the overall game for 90 minutes than for the meet to become over in 45 because we are several goals down," opined Jamie.
Ahead of Sunday's video game against India, who are 79 places before Bangladesh in the FIFA Search positions, Jamie is inspiring his costs to do it again what they showed against Afghanistan.
"India have greater top quality and showed it yesterday evening when they lost just 1-0 [to Qatar]. This can be the simplest way I can set it. England and India contain the same difference between them in the rankings. Would India beat England in a soccer match?" was the reply from Jamie, whose expenses surrendered their business lead in participating in out a 1-1 attract the reverse fixture against India in Kolkata in October, 2019. Before bringing demand of Bangladesh, the males in crimson and green also enjoyed out two draws against India despite choosing the lead on both occasions.
"There are always a couple of games where the other team can cause an upset but that isn't consistent. They have better technological players than us," said Jamie.
Whatever was playing in Jamie's brain, goal-scorer Tapu Barman was dreaming to getting some tips and toppling India to e book a direct ticket for the Asia Cup Qualifiers.
"We gave more than 100 % effort so in retrospect I could equalise within the last point in time. Everyone gave their best from their particular positions and that was the main point; teamwork," Tapu said in a video message.
"We are looking forward to the matches against India and Oman. The India meet is essential for us because we need to get points from this match to take up the Asian Glass Qualifying round immediately. This simple truth is on everyone's brain and our self-assurance has been boosted after the Afghanistan match. This confidence can help us in the India meet," explained the Bashundhara Kings centreback.
On the other hand, midfielder Sohel Rana fractured his side on Thursday nights and was eliminated for another two matches.
