Indian team reached the final of SAFF Under-17 Football Championship, defeated Nepal 4-2 in the semi-finals.

Thimphu (Bhutan), 28 September (Hindu). India’s Under-17 football team has reached the finals of the SAFF Under-17 Championship. Defeated Nepal Under-17 team 4-2 in the semi-final match played at Changlimthang Stadium in Thimphu on Saturday. In the match, Vishal Yadav scored two goals for India while Rishi Singh and Hemenichung Lunkim scored one goal each. The Indian team will face the winner of the second semi-final between Pakistan and Bangladesh in the title match on Monday.

Both the teams could not create many chances in the first half of the match. India got a chance in the 12th minute, when the ball came to Mohammad Arbash. Seeing the goalkeeper off his line, Arbash fired a shot from a good angle and distance but the ball went safely up and out of the goal. Neither team could score any goal till the first half of the game.

Indian players showed tremendous performance in the second half. Vishal Yadav scored a goal in the 61st minute to give the Indian team a 1-0 lead. After this, Vishal scored another goal seven minutes later in the 68th minute and made the score 2-0. Nepal tried to make a comeback by scoring a goal in the 81st minute but four minutes later in the 85th minute, substitute player Rishi Singh, who had come on the field a few minutes earlier, scored. India’s lead became 3-1. Late in the game, Nepal scored another goal in the 89th minute when Mohammad Kaif deflected a corner into his own net. After this, substitute player Hemenichung Lunkim scored the fourth goal for India in the fifth minute of injury time. In this way India defeated Nepal 4-2.

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Hindusthan News / Virendra Singh

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