National Football Team beat Nepal Army Club

2014-03-21

National football team beat departmental team Nepal Army Club by 2 goals in a friendly match at Nepal Army Headquarter Bhadrakali on Friday. Jagjeet Shrestha and Jumanu Rai scored for Nepal National Football Team in the 13^th minute and 53^rd minute respectively. National team is preparing for a friendly match against Yemen and Philippines on March 25 and April respectively on Doha. Today’s match is a part of preparation match and national team started the match in good note but Bhola Nath Silwal’s flick was well cleared by Army men Yudddha in the very first minute of the match. Nepal time and again tried their best to score but they failed to score in the 4^th minute, 8^th minute and 10^th minute of the match.

Nepal took an early lead in the 13^th minute when Nepali Leo, Jagjeet Shrestha scored a beautiful goal to beat Army men’s custodian Bikash Malla to make 1-0 up against Nepal Army Club. Army men’s custodian Bikash Malla played football after a long time he was out of football due to leg injury and he did a fantastic job in today’s match. Nepal Army Club was playing without their star forward Bharat Khawas and their key player Raju tamang in today’s match as both of them in national football team. In the 25^th minute national forward Santosh Sahukhala ran for the ball and he found the shoot from edge of the box but custodian Bikash Malla denied his shoot beautifully. Custodian Malla did some heroic save in the 29^th minute, 35^th minute and 40^th minute of the match. In the second half national forward Jumanu Rai doubled the tally for Nepali football team in the 53^rd minute to utilize Deepak Rai’s cross which made Nepal 2-0 up against Nepal Army Club. In the remaining time Nepal failed to add more goals despite their hard effort. In the second half Jumanu Rai, Karna Limbu, Biraj Maharjan, Raju Tamang and Sujal Shrestha enter in field replacing Santosh Sahukhala, Anil Gurung, Bhola Nath Silwal, Bijaya Lama and Jagjeet Shrestha respectively. Likewise, Bharat Khawas and Sabindra Shrestha also replaced Sandip Rai and Rabin Shrestha in the 55^th minute of the match. Manang Marshaygdi Club’s custodian Bishal Shrestha also played for national football team in the 58^th minute when Shrestha replaced first choice national keeper Kiran Kumar Limbu.

Though National football team beat Nepal Army Club by 2 goals they need to improve their performance for coming friendly matches against Yemen and Philippines. Forwards have to be smart and energetic in international friendly matches. Let’s hope that our national football team will play more friendly matches with Nepali football club.

Nepali Football Team Starting XI: Kiran Kumar Limbu ( GK), Sagar Thapa( C), Sandip Rai, Rabin Shrestha, Jagjeet Shrestha, Bikram Lama, Bijaya Dhimal, Bhola Nath Silwal, Anil Gurung and Santosh Sahukhala

Nepal Army Club Starting XI: Bikash Malla (GK and C), Yuddha Lama, Deepak Gurung, Kashi Raj , Tek Bahadur Budhathoki, Santosh Nepali, Santosh Lama, Padam Bhujel, Hiranya Magar, Nawayug Shrestha and Deep Shrestha