Nepal leads SAFF Championship with two consecutive wins
Kathmandu, October 5. Nepal has defeated Sri Lanka in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship underway in the Maldives. Nepal trounced Sri Lanka 3 goals to 2 in the match played at Male, the capital of Maldives, last night.
This was Nepal’s second victory in a row. Before this, Nepal defeated the host country 1-0 in its first match.
Suman Lama, Anjan Bista, and Ayush Ghalan scored a goal each for Nepal in the match against Sri Lanka while Marvin Hamilton and Dilone D Silva scored a goal each for Sri Lanka.
Lama scored in the 33rd minute of the first half of the game, giving a lead to Nepal. Bista pulled up a goal in the 51st minute. Hamilton scored Sri Lanka’s first goal in the 57th minute of the game. Ghalan scored for Nepal in the 86th minute, taking the game to 3-1. D Silva scored another goal for Sri Lanka through a penalty towards the fag end of the game. The score was 3-2 before the final whistle.
Nepal is at the top spot of the SAFF Championship with two consecutive wins. It has 6 points. Nepal will meet India in its third game on October 10. (RSS)
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