{"id":1190,"date":"2011-12-02T03:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T03:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2011-12-02T03:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T03:40:29","slug":"bangladesh-start-as-favourites-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh start as favourites against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>The flagship event of South Asian Football (SAFF)  Championship which kicks off from tomorrow at the Jawaharlal Nehru  Stadium would see arch rivals Pakistan and Bangladesh lock horn in the  tournament opener. Taken into consideration the past records and recent  run, including their 2-0 upset victory over Lebanon in the return leg of  the 2nd round World Cup Qualifiers in July bill Bangladesh as a clear  favorites before going into the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been preparing well for the tournament and also did play few  international friendlies as part of our preparation for the SAFF  Championship. We have had a good record against Pakistan and the team as  a whole is feeling very confident before the match,\u201d said the  Bangladeshi skipper Md Sultan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh who won the tournament back in 2003 enjoys a six match  unbeaten streak over Pakistan is aware of the fact that Pakistan would  be fielding some great talents who play in Europe including the Bary  Town FC Wales\u2019 midfielding duo of \u00a0Adnan Ahmed, and Atif Bashir , but  however remains unfazed by it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not intimidated by any player whoever it may be. And talking  about Pakistan fielding players who play in Europe seriously does not  bother us as we have faced them earlier and beat them. So that is okay  for us and all that we are concentrating on is playing good football and  win,\u201d added Sultan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bangladeshi skipper also said that they are not taking any  unnecessary pressure and would adopt to a game a day policy. Bangladesh  ranked 142 in the official FIFA rankings is the highest ranked team in  tournament and this fact would surely add a lot of confident to their  side.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s Macedonian Nicolai Illevski, however refrained from  commenting on his team\u2019s pre-match strategy and said that he is not  comfortable about talking about how his team would perform before any  match. \u201cI am not an astrologer and only an astrologer speaks before a  match. We are here to play good football,\u201d said Illevski. But going by  his style of aggressive and attacking style it is quite evident that  Bangladesh would go for the kill from the word go.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Pakistan\u2019s Coach Zavisa Milosavljenic is quite  confident of a good show but denied to be tagged as favorites. \u201cWe have  been preparing for days now and the team has a good mixture of young and  experienced talents. \u00a0We would like to best within our capacity and  play some good football,\u201d said Zavisa.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this statement was not well accepted b Pakistani skipper Jaffer  Khan and he contradicted his coach saying that Zavisa is a newly  appointed coach and does not have knowledge about our standards. \u201cThe  coach is a new one and he has been appointed only a month ago so he  doesn\u2019t have much idea. I think the coach is yet to understand the  team,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have prepared well for the tournament and we will do  well,\u201d said Jaffer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jaffer denied being under pressure as they playing in India. \u201cWe feel  no pressure and India is like our own country. Only weak pressure  players feel pressure. Wemight have a new coach and a team but not  weak,\u201d added the Pakistani skipper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s chances depend a lot on how their highly billed player  like Adnan Ahmed, Atif Bashir and Rizwan Asif perform and also how they  tackle Bangladesh\u2019s key players like Zahid Hossien, Nasirul Islam and  Jahid Hassan Emily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samikshan Dutta Choudhury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Sports News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>The flagship event of South Asian Football (SAFF)  Championship which kicks off from tomorrow at the Jawaharlal Nehru  Stadium would see arch rivals Pakistan and Bangladesh lock horn in the  tournament opener. Taken into consideration the past records and recent  run, including their 2-0 upset victory over Lebanon in the return leg of  the 2nd round World Cup Qualifiers in July bill Bangladesh as a clear  favorites before going into the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bangladesh start as favourites against Pakistan - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1190\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bangladesh start as favourites against Pakistan - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 New Delhi: The flagship event of South Asian Football (SAFF) Championship which kicks off from tomorrow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium would see arch rivals Pakistan and Bangladesh lock horn in the tournament opener. 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