Bangladesh beat Thailand

Bangladesh got a 4-1 win over Thailand in Junior Hockey Men’s Asia Cup 2023 being held in Oman on Tuesday.

The Bangladesh team will face Japan for the fifth and sixth place on June 1. Japan beat Thailand by 8-0. 

The second match for the definition of the 5-8th place was between Bangladesh third in Pool B and Thailand who finished fourth in Pool A.

Both teams managed to reach this stage with a lot of effort and match by match having more and more confidence in themselves.  
Although Bangladesh was the favorite due to their position in the group, Thailand had a very good group stage to reach today’s match.

Bangladesh was quick to show their supremacy and within a minute of play they had already put their team 1-0 up with a goal by Ali Md.

Nine minutes later ISLAM Amirul made it 2-0 to add goals and gain confidence. But KIM Jung Chul’s team did not want to be left behind and in the 17th minute PHUMEE Kritsana scored the first goal for his team to make the game 2-1. A minute after that HASAN Md widened the gap to 3-1 for Bangladesh and in the 57th minute HOSSAIN Md made it 4-1.

Bangladesh will play against Japan and Thailand will play against Oman for the fifth and sixth places, while the other two teams will play for the seventh and eighth places.

The best player of the match was Ali Muhammad, scorer of one of Bangladesh’s goals.