Stimac Not Happy
90’ Could Stimac have simply started this XI? There will be five minutes of added time. Igor Stimac is not happy. He has had a word with the fourth official. He is not happy.
Highlights - Seiminlen Doungel Scores Late As India Salvage Point vs Afghanistan
Seiminlen Doungel scored to negate Zelfagar Nazary strike from first half to earn a draw for Indian football team in their FIFA World Cup qualifier against Afghanistan in Dushanbe. Get highlights and analysis of the Afghanistan vs India FIFA World Cup qualifier match below.
Seiminlen Doungel heads home the equaliser for Indian football team in their match against Afghanistan. Get highlights and analysis of the Afghanistan vs India FIFA World Cup qualifier match below.
Seiminlen Doungel scored in stoppage time, off a corner from Brandon Fernandes, to earn Indian football team a draw against Afghanistan in their FIFA World Cup qualifier match against Afghanistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on November 15. India were unimaginative and erratic in the first half, and paid the price for it right at the stroke of half time. Afghanistan, after troubling the Indian defence thought the right flank scored via the same route. Zelfagar Nazary found the target for Afghanistan off a cross from David Najem. India did make amends in the second half even as Afghanistan defended doggedly.
There was nothing right in the first half but somehow Stimac’s substitutions, especially Farukh Choudhary and Doungel gave India the impetus to attack more in the second period. Farukh’s introduction opened the left channel for India to exploit and in that 10 minute period Doungel was on, he created enough doubt and movement to give the Afghans a headache. Not to mention he scored the equaliser. (Get highlights and analysis of the Afghanistan vs India FIFA World Cup qualifier match below).
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India Equalise Through Doungel
90’ + 2’ India have a corner won after Doungel finds space and tries to get a cross in. From te corner, Brandon drills a ball in, a much much better corner than any before and Doungel scores. India are level!!!!!
Doungel Saves India
90+4´ Afghanistan will be distraught, but India can actually win this game now. There are still two minutes to play. And they are in the ascendency. Doungel -- who was winning some praise for his cameo in our live blog booth -- has done what Adil Khan did in the previous game. He has saved India some serious blushes.
India Salvage Draw
FULL-TIME! And that's the end of that! The referee blows the whistle, as the two teams share the spoils.?? 1-1 ??#AFGIND ⚔ #BackTheBlue ? #IndianFootball ⚽ #BlueTigers ? pic.twitter.com/cJwafhDRCq
— Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) November 14, 2019
Full Time: Afghanistan 1-1 India
And so there you have it. An improved performance in the second half helps India earn a point. There was nothing right in the first half but somehow Stimac’s substitutions, especially Farukh Choudhary and Doungel gave India the impetus to attack more in the second period. Farukh’s introduction opened the left channel for India to exploit and in that 10 minute period Doungel was on, he created enough doubt and movement to give the Afghans a headache. Not to mention he scored the equaliser. Now the big questions are whether Stimac can use this as his starting XI? Probably not, considering you would be playing Ashique out of position so often and for so long that you may lose him as an attacking threat entirely. Next up is Oman away. A point there would be a real blessing.
Keep a look out for our review of the game on the 420 Grams episode coming your way tomorrow. Till then, good night.
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