SAFF Championship: Second match Nepal Vs Maldives Pre match preview and stats!!!

MALDIVES Goalkeepers: Imran Mohamed, Mohamed Faisal, Ahmed Athif, Defenders: Assad Abdul Ghani, Mohamed Jameel, Shafiu Ahmed, Ismail Faruhadh, Hassan Adhuham Midfielders: Mohamed Shifan, Mohamed Umair, Ismail Mohamed, Shamveel Ghasim, Akram Abdul Ghani, Mohamed Arif Strikers: Ali Fasir, Ibrahim Fazeel, Ali Ashfaaq, Ali Ashadh, Ahmed Thoriq, Mohammed Hussain Niyaz

NEPAL Goalkeepers: Kiran Chemzong, Ritesh Thapa, Bikash Malla, Defenders: Sagar Thapa, Biraj Maharjan, Sandip Rai, Bikash Singh Chhetri, Dipak Bhushal, Rohit Chand, Robin Shrestha, Midfielders: Nirajan Khadga, Jagjeet Shrestha, Bholanath Silwal, Bijaya Gurung, Raju Tamang, Strikers: Anil Gurung, Jumanu Rai, Sujal Shrestha, Santosh Sahukhala, Bharat Khawas

Nepal’s last international match was a 4-0 loss to the Philippines. Prior to that, they suffered the humiliation of a 9-0 loss in the first leg of the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Jordan. Even though they drew 1-1 in the second leg, the aggregate score showed the real story.

Maldives’ last three games were all against Seychelles, and they won two of those games, going down 5-1 in the other.

Maldives coach, Istavan Urbanyi, has mentioned of the need to treat every game "like a final" as that shall ensure a 100% effort from his boys.

Urbanyi was appointed as coach of the national team only five weeks prior to the start of the tournament, though he does know team well as he was their coach a couple of years back as well.

Facts about Maldieves and Nepal 

• These two teams played each other at exactly the same stage in the 2009 SAFF Championship opener at the Bangabandhu stadium in Dhaka. The match had been drawn 1-1.

• Nepal have played 10 international matches against the Maldives since 1984 having lost four, won three and drawn the rest.

• In the year 1999, Nepal were defeated by Maldives twice in the competition, once in the group stage and thereafter for the third place play-off.

• Nepal are ranked 23 spots higher in the FIFA rankings than Maldives

Fifa Ranking

Country                                      Rank                                                     Points

 Nepal                                         143                                                       177

 Maldieves                                   166                                                       106

 

Record of Both team

 Field Report

 Maldives

 Nepal

Head to Head

SAFF Championship ‎(SAFF)‎

05-Dec-2009

Maldives 1 - Nepal 1

Last Five Matches

Maldives
28-Jul-2011	Maldives 0 - Iran 1	WCQA
23-Jul-2011	Iran 4 - Maldives 0	WCQA
10-Jul-2011	Maldives 1 - India 1	IF
25-Mar-2011	Tajikistan 0 - Maldives 0	ACC
23-Mar-2011	Kyrgyzstan 1 - Maldives 2	ACC

Nepal
11-Oct-2011	Philippines 4 - Nepal 0	FR
28-Jul-2011	Nepal 1 - Jordan 1	WCQA
23-Jul-2011	Jordan 9 - Nepal 0	WCQA
11-Apr-2011	Nepal 0 - Sri Lanka 0	ACC
09-Apr-2011	Nepal 0 - Korea DPR (PRK) 1	ACC