Bangladesh national women鈥檚 football team will be looking to seal the FIFA international friendly series against Bhutan when the two sides face off in the second and final match at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu today.
The match is scheduled to begin at 6:00pm Bangladesh Standard Time.
Bangladesh, who are taking part in the series as part of their preparation for October鈥檚 SAFF Women鈥檚 Championship in Nepal, thrashed Bhutan 5-1 in the first match on Wednesday, with forward Mst Sagorika slamming a hat-trick on debut.
Ahead of the match, the visitors underwent an hour-long final training session at the match venue on Friday.
Veteran forward and captain Sabina Khatun vowed to rectify the mistakes that they made in the first match, while Sagorika wished to score more goals in the final game.
鈥榃e will try to rectify the silly mistakes that we made in the first game and will try to win the second match as well,鈥� said Sabina after the training session.
Sagorika said, 鈥業 want to score more goals in the next game and return home with a series win.鈥�
Though Bangladesh (140) are 33 places ahead of Bhutan (173) in the current FIFA women鈥檚 rankings, the visiting team鈥檚 English coach, Peter James Butler, believed that the hosts have improved a lot in the past two years.
鈥楾here are no minnows anymore鈥ver the last two years they [Bhutan] have really come on,鈥� said Butler, who hinted to bring some changes in the starting eleven in the second game.
鈥業 won鈥檛 change the system, but the personnel will change鈥e will give quite a few numbers of players to share the workload鈥he most important thing is that we give game time to the players, who have not played,鈥� he added.
Sabina also echoed Butler.
鈥業n the first game, we found a better Bhutan side than we played them in the SAFF [Women鈥檚 Championship 2022],鈥� said Sabina.