India Go Down 1-3 Against Vietnam. (Twitter)
Huyn Nhu, Tran Thi Hai Linh and Pham Hai Yen hit the online for Vietnam, whereas Sandhiya Ranganathan scored a comfort for India within the eightieth minute.
Indian girls’s soccer crew’s Paris Olympics desires went up in smoke after it misplaced 1-3 to Vietnam in a bunch C match of the AFC qualifiers second spherical event right here on Sunday.
Having misplaced their second consecutive match, India is now out of rivalry for the 2024 Olympics regardless of having a match in hand. In the primary match, India misplaced 0-7 to former World Cup champions Japan.
The three group winners and the perfect-ranked runner-up crew within the second spherical advance to the third and closing spherical.
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Huyn Nhu (4th minute), Tran Thi Hai Linh (twenty second) and Pham Hai Yen (73rd) discovered the goal for Vietnam whereas Sandhiya Ranganathan pulled one again for India within the eightieth minute.
All 4 objectives of the match had been scored from headers.
Bala Devi, who has been the star striker for India all through her profession, was posted as a deep-mendacity midfielder by Thomas Dennerby, whereas Soumya Guguloth and Anju Tamang saved switching between the centre-ahead and the fitting-wing positions.
The experiment didn’t repay towards Vietnam, nevertheless, as the opponents launched a barrage of assaults within the opening exchanges. Their captain and striker Nhu bought on the scoresheet within the fourth minute itself, when some confusion between India centre-again Ashalata Devi and proper-again Sanju resulted in a lack of possession.
Nguyen Thi Tuyet Dung capitalised on the confusion and despatched in a cross from the fitting flank, which was headed in by Nhu.
The Vietnam captain was a menace upfront for the Indian defence, as she always managed to get between the traces and place herself without spending a dime headers.
Another effort by Nhu, a glancing header this time, thudded into the close to put up earlier than Bala cleared it. Minutes later, Panthoi had to pull off a diving save off a free kick to preserve the 31-yr-previous ahead out.
Vietnam struck once more within the twenty second minute when an unmarked Linh headed a Doung Thi Van cross from the fitting, into the Indian purpose.
India primarily relied on counter-assaults, Manisha being the first outlet together with her darting runs down the left. However, their finest likelihood got here from Bala, whose glancing shot off a Sanju nook trickled inches broad of the far put up.
Another likelihood for India got here with round 10 minutes left for the half-time break, when Manisha’s cross from the left was aimed toward Anju on the far put up. The latter headed it throughout the purpose from an acute angle, nevertheless it was simply past the attain of Soumya.
Bala moved again to the quantity 10 function within the later a part of the primary half.
In the second half, Dennerby introduced on Sangita Basfore rather than the 33-yr-previous striker to act as a protect for the defence. Astam Oraon additionally changed Ashalata, who was on a yellow.
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While the modifications did lend a specific amount of stability to the Indian defence, they did little to present a lot pleasure in assault.
Striker Renu was launched into the sport with round 20 minutes to go, to bolster the assault. However, a minute later, lightning struck thrice as Vietnam scored with their head once more. Substitute Yen was unmarked within the field this time and made no mistake as she headed in a cross from the fitting.
Sandhiya pulled one again for India as she ran onto a deep cross-subject ball off a free-kick by Ritu Rani, and headed it previous an onrushing Vietnam keeper.
India performs subsequent towards hosts Uzbekistan on Wednesday.
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