Yemen beat Nepal in friendly match

Nepali national team was beaten by Yemen national team by 2 goals in a friendly match played on Tuesday at Doha. Kamil Tareq and Mohamaed Barwish scored a piece of goal for Yemen in the 58th minute and 66th minute respectively. Nepal started the match in impressive note and had good ball possession from the early minute; Sandip Rai gave a pass to Jagjeet Shrestha but latter failed to collect the ball in the 3rd minute. Both teams were busy in midfield battle up to 5th minute but it was Yemen who slowly started to keep ball possession with them and compelled Nepali side to play defensive football up to 11th minute. Sandip Rai did his best to clear out the ball from header in the 12th minute. Nepal earned a free kick in the 18th minute but Sandip Rai’s free kick did not find Anil Gurung’s header. Rai’s free kick in the 27th minute was also wasted by Anil Gurung. We saw a good one touch pass in the 29th minute when Santosh Sahukhala gave a pass to Bhola Nath Silwal, Silwal to Anil Gurung and Gurung to Bikram Lama but latter’s attempt went wide. Bhola Silwal gave a superb pass to Anil Gurung and Gurung’s ambitious shot from outside the box deflected off defender to the hands of Yemen’s custodian in the 34th minute. Jagjeet Shrestha failed to collect the free kick taken by Sandip Rai in the 37th minute. Yemen’s first good attempt came in the 41st minute but Nepali goalkeeper Kiran Chemjong did his best to deny Yemen player.
In the second half Nepal earned a free kick an early minute  but Jagjeet Shrestha’s superb free kick was easily headed out from the box by Yemeni defender. Deepak Rai’s corner kick in the 53rd minute was poorly headed by Rabin Shrestha. Yemen’s first goal attempt in the second half came in the 56th minute but Yemeni’s attempt was brilliantly saved by Nepalese custodian Kiran Chemjong. Yemen took a lead in the 58th minute when Kamil Tareq scored to punish Nepalese custodian Chemjong who blocked Tareq’s first attempt but failed to clear the ball in proper way. After leading a chart Yemen looked confident and they played attacking football they almost doubled their tally in the 62nd minute but Nepalese custodian Kiran Chemjong did his best to deny Kamil Tareq in one VS one situation. Yemen doubled their tally in the 66th minute through Mohamed Barwish who badly beat Nepalese skipper Sagar Thapa to shoot from the D Box to give no clue for Nepalese custodian Chemjong to make 2-0 up against Nepal. Nepal looked dumb in the second half there was no proper coordination between forwards and midfielder. Jagjeet Shrestha’s low drive free kick was easily saved by Yemeni custodian in the 81st minute. Ashim Jung Karki, Karna Limbu and Bijaya Dhimal played their debut match against Yemen from this match. In the remaining time, Nepal failed to cut the deficit and Yemen beat Nepal by 2 goals in a friendly match.

Nepali line up:

Goalkeeper: Kiran Chemjong
Defender: Sagar Thapa (Captain), Sandip Rai(Bijaya Dhimal 84’), Rabin Shrestha(Sabindra Shrestha 59’), Rohit Chand
Midfielder: Bhola Nath Siwal(Ashim Jung Kari 84’), Bikram Lama, Raju Tamang (Deepak Rai 44’), Jagjeet Shrestha
Forward: Anil Gurung(Karna Limbu 75’), Santosh Sahukhala(Jumanu Rai 65’)

Head to Head

Asian Cup 2000, Qualifying tournament 10-2-2000 Nepal VS Yemen

In the previous meeting, Yemen beat Nepal by 3 goals and at that time Upendra Man Singh was the team captain and team goalkeeper. Singh is now a goalkeeping coach of National Football Team and can he take the revenge against Yemeni. The current FIFA ranking of Nepal is 160 and Yemen is in 185 ranks, though Yemen looks inferior on the basis of FIFA ranking, Nepal should not take them lightly. Nepal will test some fresh talented in this friendly match namely Karna Limbu, Bijaya Dhimal and Ashim Jung Karki. Meanwhile, Jumanu Rai and Anil Gurung will try their best to score goal in order to catch Hari Khadka and Nirajan Rayamajhi, both had scored 13 goals and are the leading goal scorer of Nepal.