2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers | Bangladesh is a annoying team, disturbs opponents with quality defensive work, claims Igor Srimac

ByPress Release,SportsCafe Editor

06/07/2021

India head coach Igor Srimac feels that Bangladesh is a very annoying football team that disturbs their opponents with their defensive work. The Blue Tigers is set to lock horns with their arch-riva🧸ls in their FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, this Monday evening, at the Jassim Bin Hama♕d Stadium, in Doha.

Indian National Team Head Coach Igor Stimac, on the eve of the Blue Tigers’ match against Bangladesh, described the opposition as a “team with great fighting spirit”, that pu♎ts in “quality work” on the pitch.

Stimac was speaking at the official pre-match press conference for India’s match against Bangladesh in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 preliminary joint round qual꧙ification round scheduled to be played at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha tomorrow (Monday, June 7).

“In the football world, I would say they are very aꦛnnoying team who disturb the opposition with so much defensive work, quality w🍨ork – with blocks – quite similar to what we did against Qatar,” Stimac averred.

“In football at times, you need to dꦬo everything possible to irritate the rival team, to annoy them, to cut their passing. Bangladesh are fighting it for every point in the group, an🙈d whatever they do, they do it as a team,” the Head Coach averred.

The ✃kick-off is at IST 7.30 pm (local Doha time 5 pm) and 🤡the match will be telecast live on Star Sports Network and Disney + Hotstar.

Defender Sandesh Jhingan stressed that the team aims to carry forward the “characඣter” displayed in the match against Qatar into the match against Bangladesh.

“The match against Qatar was not easy. But we displayed a certain character and arrogance in thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe 90 minutes against the Asian champions. We aim to do great in our second game. We will give our bes🐟t with our desire, commitment and try to make everyone proud,” Jhingan maintained.

Stimac added: “The match against Bangladesh is a big game for our fans and the team. We are going to approach🌄 the game⛄ to win it without meaning any disrespect to our opponents. Our aim has stayed the same since the beginning – to qualify for the AFC Asian Cup China 2023.”

The last time the two teams met at the YBK in K🌼olkata back in October 201🐼9, the match ended 1-1.

“We are going to try to show some composure diffeꦰrent from that of the Qatar or Oman match. It’s up to us whether we can handle the match better in regards to ball possession, ball movement, speed and accuracy of passing and the eventual execution,” Stimac exp📖ressed.

Sandesh, who was con♊ferred with the Arjuna Award last season highlighted that football often comes ๊up with many surprises.

“In football you can get surprised and get bad 𒀰results any day. The main job is the preparation – both physically and mentally,” he explained. “As players, we need to stick to the game plan and show the right desire and commitment which the gaffer wants and expects💞 from us,” he added.

“The matches against Qatar and Bangladesh are so different – from one extreme to another. In the first game we played the best team in Asia who were so superior and have been training every day in comparison to us having just eight days of training prior to the start of the competition. In fact, without the help of the Qatar FA and Qatari government, we would꧋n’t have even begun our training,” Stimac opined.

“Bangladesh were also in a similar situation to us as far as preparation is concerned. But they have the advantage of their players being much more competꩲitively fit as their season ended in the second week of May in comparison to most of our players not having any competitive football since February.”