Bangladesh will play for a win in their away match of the FIFA World Cup/Asia Cup Qualifiers against Tajikistan at the Republican Central Stadium in Dushanbe today (Thursday) according to their newly appointed Italian coach.The match will kick-off at 6 pm (Bangladesh Time) and 5 pm (Tajikistan time). Tajik Television Channel 1 will telecast the match live. Bangladesh, which played to a 1-1 draw with Tajikistan in their home match at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka in June 16, will face hosts Tajikistan aiming to snatch important points to keep their hope alive for playing in the Asia Cup Football.Prior to the match, Bangladesh team addressed a press conference at the conference room of Hyatt Regency Hotel in the Wednesday afternoon. Addressing the pressmen, the Head Coach of Bangladesh Fabio Lopez said, “We came here to win the match. — we respect for our opponent team Tajikistan, but we are not worried about them. It will be a tough match for both of us.””We don’t think about our past matches, we want to make good result in future,–every body of our team is motivated to give their best, we came here earlier to adjust our players with local weather & every things, local climate is rainy and cold but the stadium field is good,” he further said. “As a national side, our boys are eager to do their best for the nation. I do hope my team will show their highest level effort for winning the match” he added.Bangladesh player Jamal Bhuiyan said, ” As home team Tajikistan have a little advantage of crowd and ground, but it will be a tough match for both the team, We missed the opportunity to win the match at home by conceding a bad goal at the last moment that concluded in 1-1 draw, but this time we don’t want to miss any opportunity”.Head coach of Tajikistan Mubin Ergasher said, ” We want to make a positive result, Our result was not good in the beginning of World Cup Qualifiers, we did not get any win yet, We included some new and young player from U-23 team to win the match”Former head coach of the team resigned, we cannot win any match due to some internal problem and that is why we included some new young players” he added.Our main goalkeeper is not playing due to injury, we respect Bangladesh team because we made a draw in away match, they have some good and skilled players, they have also a new good head coach from Italy, we do not feel any pressure to play on our home ground under 20,000 supporters, we will get more speed in front of our supporters in the stadium: he further said. Tajik captain Komil Saidov said, “we only want to win the match, our main target is to win the match, It will be a tough fight for both the team:In the five-team Asian Group B, Bangladesh remained at bottom securing only one point from five matches while Tajikistan were in the 4th slot bagging two points from five matches after playing 2-2 draw with Kyrgyzstan, apart from 1-1 draw with Bangladesh. . Jordan topped the group list with unbeaten record collecting 13 points from five matches while four-time World Cup playing and Asian champions Australia followed them securing nine points from four matches. Earlier, Bangladesh conceded 1-3 defeat against Kyrgyzstan and suffered 0-4 defeat against group leader Jordan in their home matches while they suffered 0-5 defeat against Australia and 0-2 defeat against Kyrgyzstan in their away matches. In remaining group matches, Bangladesh will play giant Australia in their home match on November 17 and will play Jordan in their away match on March 24 next year.Bangladesh team, which reached Tajikistan capital Dushanbe Saturday morning one week ahead of the match to adjust with local conditions, now almost accustomed with local weather and conditions after making training session for the 4th consecutive days in addition playing some practice matches.
