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Bangladesh will face Nepal in the semi-finals of the SAFF Under-19 Championship on Friday. The red-green team defeated Nepal 2-1 at the Golden Jubilee Stadium in Arunachal, India, on Friday (May 16) to secure a ticket to the final.<\/p>\n
Although neither team scored a goal in the first half, the second half was full of excitement. In the 73rd minute of the match, Nazmul Huda gave the team the lead with a great header from Faisal’s corner. Then, in the 81st minute, Faisal doubled the lead from Manik’s pass. In the end, Sujan Dangol scored a goal in the 87th minute, but Nepal could not avoid defeat.<\/p>\n
With this win, Bangladesh entered the SAFF final for the second consecutive time. They defeated Nepal 4-1 in the final of the previous edition as well. This time, there is one more step left in the mission to retain that title.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh reached the semi-finals as Group A champions after drawing 2-2 with Maldives in the group stage and beating Bhutan 3-0. On the other hand, Group B champions India will play in the second semi-final, where their opponents will be Group A runners-up Maldives.<\/p>\n
The final match will be held on May 19, at the same venue. Now Bangladesh have the opportunity to retain their South Asian supremacy for the second time in a row.<\/p>\n
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Sports Desk \/\/ Bangladesh will face Nepal in the semi-finals of the SAFF Under-19 Championship on Friday. The red-green team defeated Nepal 2-1 at the Golden Jubilee Stadium in Arunachal, India, on Friday (May 16) to secure a ticket to the final. Although neither team scored a goal in the first half, the second half was full of excitement. In the 73rd minute of the match, Nazmul Huda gave the team the lead with a great header from Faisal’s corner. Then, in the 81st minute, Faisal doubled the lead from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}