AFC U-19 Championship: Hosts Bangladesh to play favourite Uzbekistan today

Players of Bangladesh Under-19 football team playing football during their practice session at the BFF Artificial Turf on Monday.
Players of Bangladesh Under-19 football team playing football during their practice session at the BFF Artificial Turf on Monday.
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After a frustrating 1-1 draw with Bhutan, hosts Bangladesh will play favorite Uzbekistan in their 3rd and last Group A match of the AFC U-19 Championship Qualifiers at 6:pm at the Bangabandhu National Stadium here today (Tuesday).The winners of the match will be the group champions to reach the final round of the 16-team AFC U-19 Championship Barhain 2016 while the group runners-up also have a chance to reach the final round as the five best runners-up team of the ten Asian groups. Uzbekistan topped the group list with an all win record securing full six points from two matches after crushing Bhutan 7-0 and outplaying Sri Lanka by 3-0 goals while Bangladesh followed them with four points from two encounters beating Sri Lanka 2-0 and played to 1-1 draw with Bhutan. Earlier on Sunday, Bhutan destroyed the party of hosts as they forced Bangladesh to play 1-1 draw after creating constant thread to home side till 76th minute of the match by a Sonam Tobgay’s goal in the very 6th minute.But captain Masuk Mia Zoni saved Bangladesh from an embarrassing situation scoring the match equalizer in the he 77th minute amid huge relief of the high flying BangladeshAll losers Sri Lanka will play Bhutan in the other Group A match of the day (Tuesday) at 3 pm at the same venue.Points table after the 2nd round matches of Group A: (Tabulating under match played, win, draw, loss, goal for, goal against, goal difference and points)Team M W D L GF GA GD PtsUzbekistan 2 2 0 0 10 0 10 6Bangladesh 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 4Bhutan 2 0 1 1 1 8 -7 1Sri Lanka 2 0 0 2 0 5 -5 0

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