AFC U-16 Women’s: Bangladesh to play UAE Friday 

Dhaka – Hosts Bangladesh will play all-losers United Arab Emirates (UAE) in their 3rd Group F match of the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship on Friday at Bir Shrestha Shaheed Sipahi Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur here.

The match will kicks-off at 3:30 pm.Vietnam will play Lebanon in Friday’s other match at 11:30 am at the same venue.After the two group matches, Bangladesh and Vietnam topped the list jointly with all win record grabbing full six points scoring 18 goals each without conceding any.

UAE and Bahrain yet to open account, playing two and three matches respectively to remain at the 4thand 5th place respectively in the five-nation fray while Lebanon were in the 3rd slot due to poor goal difference, despite of collecting six points from three matches.

Hosts Bangladesh maintained their all-win record in the group outplaying Lebanon by 8-0 goals in their 2nd match after thrashing another gulf nation Bahrain 10-0 in their opening group encounter while UAE conceded 0-4 goals defeat against Vietnam after suffering 3-6 goals defeat against Lebanon.

Two joint group leaders –Bangladesh and Vietnam-will battle with each other for the group crown in the last group match on Sunday (Sept 23) at 3:30 pm at the same venue while two lowly teams-UAE and Bahrain will meet each other on the same day (Sunday) at 11:30 am at the same venue.

Vietnam earned a highest margin 14-0 goals victory over all-losers Bahrain in their 2nd group match to share top slot jointly with home side after beating UAE by 4-0 goals in the opening match.

Standing of the Group F till Wednesday (tabulating under match played, win, draw, loss, goal for, goal against, goal difference and points).

Teams M W D L GF GA GD Pts
Bangladesh 2 2 0 0 18 0 18 6
Vietnam 2 2 0 0 18 0 18 6
Lebanon 3 2 0 1 14 11 3 6
UAE 2 0 0 2 3 10 -70
Bahrain 3 0 0 3 0 32  -32 0,UNB