BD women complete Bhutan FIFA mission with 2 wins out of 2

Bangladesh Women Football team unbeated in Bhutan FIFA matches.

Dhaka, July 27 (UNB) - The current SAFF Women’s champions Bangladesh Football team won the two-match FIFA International Women’s Football (Tier-1) Series 2-0 beating hosts Bhutan by 4-2 goals in a keenly contested 2nd and last match at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu Saturday evening.

Touring Bangladesh Women’s Football team  played the two-match FIFA International Series against Himalayan nation Bhutan as a part of their preparation for the upcoming SAFF Women’s Championship 2024 to be held in Nepal next October.

This was the 4th consecutive victory for the Bangladesh National Women’s team against Bhutan after beating them by 2-0 goals in the SAFF Women’s Championship at Biratnagar in Nepal in 2019, beat them by 8-0 goals in Kathmandu in 2022 on way to clinch their first-ever  SAFF Women’s Championship title, apart from their 5-1 goals victory in the first friendly last Wednesday.

In that match, the youthful Bangladesh Women's team fell behind but soon assumed one-way traffic  in a flying start, outplaying the hosts by 5-1 goals at the same venue, featuring a hattrick by Sagorika.

Today's match between new English head coach Peter James Butler-groomed Bangladesh and Bhutanese women's team was locked in 2-2 goals in the first half of the day's match.

Like the previous match on Wednesday, coming from behind, Bangladesh won the match and series. 

This time Bangladesh were forced to field an youthful women’s team without key players like Tohura Khatun, Shamsunnahar Jr, Afeida Khondakar, Shaheda Akter Ripa for the HSC exam and Krishna Rani Sarkar and Aklima Khatun for injury.

Earlier, Bangladesh Women’s team, under the new British Head Coach Peter James Butler, played a two-match preparatory series in Dhaka against the Chinese Taipei in last May and June and lost both the matches by 0-4 and 0-1 goal respectively. - UNB