Defending champions VB sports earned a narrow win in the opening game of this season’s Dhiraagu Dhivehi League. VB beat NewRadiant by 3-2 with Ali Ashfaaq scoring the first goal in the 23rdminute and Shamveel Qasim doubled lead before New Radiant leveledbefore the break, however second half substitute Lareef scored a luckywinner with twenty minutes remaining.VB got the perfect opportunity in the 4th minute, a penalty wasawarded for a foul on Ashfaaq by keeper Ziyazan. Ali Umar couldn’tconvert the ball as keeper Ziyazan saved nicely.
But in the 23rd minute Ashfaaq found more than enough space to dribblepast keeper to send the ball to an empty net to score the opener.
In the 31st minute Shamveel scored a beautiful long range effort todouble their lead. But the best goal of the night came in the 35thminute as Ibrahim Shiyam scored a stunning goal to make it 2-1.
New Radiant leveled in the 43rd minute, a chance created by Wrightfrom the right flank was nicely finished by new signing Ali Fasir.
VB found enough chance to increase their lead in the second half butkeeper Ziyazan pulled out some wonderful saves but in the 70th minutea mistake from him let Lareef to score the winner. Ziyazan failed tohold on to the powerful shot by Abu and Lareef fired the loose ballfrom close range to make it 3-2.
After the match, VB’s coach Vanli let out his frustration over the poor performance from his players.
“We won the game by just like. We played like s*** today. I am sorry to say this but we played like s***.”
“We played very well for 20 minutes and then we let them play the game. We just lost our concentration afterwards. We were simply very bad today. It’s not that New
Radiant was a better side than us. But we just didn’t play and we were bad”
“How can the players concentrate? The attitude of the players is simply wrong! I don’t want to name the player. But he didn’t sleep last night. How can he concentrate? This is the attitude of national team players.”
“The players’ attitude in the Challenge Cup was very good. Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Cambodia are much better teams than us. But our attitude was very good and we manage to qualify for the AFC Challenge Cup.”
“I came here to coach VB with a European mentality and attitude. But what I see here in the Maldives Island, I don’t know how to tell it. There is no attitude at all”
Meanwhile, Mohammed Shiyaz (Mohan) said despite the loss, he was very happy with the performance.
“Compared to VB we had few practices and we did not have much friendly matches even. The players played much better than we expected.”
“I didn’t have much choice today. So I had to use the young and new players. Some of these players did not play in this level of football. I am happy with their performance”
“Tom did not participate in a single practice. He is still injured, but I requested him to play tonight. He said he is scared to touch the ball even. But it was a splendid effort from him to play for the full 90 minutes.”
“Charles came back today and it took him 2 days for his travel to Maldives. Even though the player rested during the journey, he would be tired. So that was the reason for the change.
When asked by media regarding the referee’s decisions, Shiyaz said he don’t want to comment on it.
“I don’t want to comment on the referees decisions. If we comment on it, it might have an impact on our next games even. So, I don’t want to comment on it”
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