SAFF Championship 2023 final, IND vs KUW: Enjoy the highlights of the match between India and Kuwait, as Sunil Chhetri and Co. beat Kuwait in sudden death to defend the SAFF Cup title.
India ranges up for a guard of honor for Kuwait. The west- Asian side has been a fantastic caller in its demoiselle SAFF Championship crusade and will go home with immense pride, forcing the match right to unforeseen death.
I ’m so happy everyone minced in. They aren’t an easy side to play against and I ’m so happy that we ended that event like this.
All credit to the boys for not giving up after conceding the thing. I suppose that was the weakest point for us in the game. Kuwait just stuck to that thing and when it goes into penalties, anyone can win and moment was ourt day.
Over 26,000 suckers singing Vante Mataram at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium as India does its palm stage at a place that has celebrated, supplicated and cheered with every heart in the country throughout the event.
The shootout will be taken in the southern end of the colosseum, as was the case in India’s palm against Lebanon in the semifinal.
120 twinkles couldn’t decide the winner as we enter the eventuality of a penalty shootout. India’s instigation from the Lebanon palm, and its history in a final, 11 times agone would encourage the Blue Barracuda then.
Rohit Kumar tries to get the ball in the final thiord but fouls Mahdi Dashti, ending that chance. Kuwait, on the other hand, goes for an attack and Akhaldi’s failes overhead kick sees Poojary get an injury. Poojary makes a good run along the right hand, runs past the Kuwait protectors and crosses for Chhangte, who receives the ball with one touch and shoots with the other only to see it effervescing over the thing.
Alrashidi brings down Jeakson in the Indian half and the hosts get a free- kick. The Viking blasts are back by the Indian suckers as 26, 318 of them continue cheering at the colosseum, hoping for India’s palm.
Alfahad tries to get the ball off Rohit Kumar along the left hand and end up fouling him. The adjudicator books him right down– the sixth booking for the callers.
First touch for Subhasish as India sluggishly builds from the reverse. India’s long ball is blocked by Kuwait, only for Udanta to get to it. But his pass for Chhetri is interdicted and cleared by Kuwait.
Akash Mishra is still floundering with fitness and India decides to replace him in the last moments, with Subhasish Bose replacing him.
Indian suckers sing ‘ Vande Mataram ’ to cheer up the platoon which has roared and marched well into the final, with triumphs over Pakistan, Lebanon and Nepal. Five further twinkles plus added time for India to defend its crown through normal progression of play.
Mahesh lashes in a cross for Udanta in the box, from the left hand but Dashti gets to it first and clears it down.
Fatigue eventually catching up with the players with Akash Mishra down, receving medical attention. ultimately, he’s back on his bases.
Kuwait gets the alternate half underway with Abdullah still ready to produce chances. His backheel for Alotaibi is struck well but Mahesh makes a timely interception to stop that for a corner. The corner is eventually cleared by India.
105 twinkles plus injury time done and still no winner in this match. The coming half will begin in a many twinkles as the Blue Barracuda hope for a advance before entering the eventuality of a penalty shootout.
Last nanosecond of extra-time first- half. The brigades, just like the former match, have remained extremely position in every department. Abdullah tries tha ast attempt of the half with a right- footed megahit from outside the box, which is inhaled up by Gurpreet.
Akash Mishra vestments a pass for Chhangte on the left but the ball rolls to Marzouq. India has reversed its wingers, with Chhangte now playing on the left and Udanta on the right.
Alkhaldi looks to have pulled a muscle and the adjudicator indicates to the Kuwait bench to shoot their medical platoon. Meanwhile, Udanta and Chhetri, two BFC boys not so long agone, bandy how to breahc Kuwait’s defence
Mahesh Singh’s free- kick is headedaway by Kuwait. Meanwhile, Kuwait was forced to make a change with Alenezi pulling a muscle, with the player stretchered out of play.
Last many twinkles for the brigades to brush up their routines rehearsed for the match as both sides take the field in front of a vended out crowd. The game, for sure, is going to be a mouth soddening one.
Akash Mishra was awarded the arising player of the time award by the AIFF after the Annual General Meeting in Bengaluru. The former Hyderabad FC full- reverse has been a disclosure in the Indian Super League and will hope to continue his form in this peak clash against Kuwait.
Bengaluru FC and India captain Sunil Chhetri entered a idol’s hello before the SAFF Championship final against Kuwait. Chhetri had scored the only thing for India in the former clash between the two sides.
India has made three changes from the side that started against Lebanon in the semifinal. Akash Mishra and Nikhil Poojary return as full- tails and Sandesh Jhingan replaces Mehtab Singh after completing his supension in the former game.
Indian Football suckers sing Vande Mataram as Team India arrives for the SAFF Championship final against Kuwait in Bengaluru. India’s crown is at stake– one which it secured two times ago against Nepal.
Abdulrahman Marzouq, Khaled Hajiah, Hasan Alanezi, Abdullah Albloushi, Sultan Alenezi, Ahmad Afnj Aldhefeery, Mohammad Abdullah, Shabaib Alkhaldi, Redha Abujabarah, Hamad Alqallaf, Mobarak Alfaneeni
India will look to decide its ninth SAFF Championship title when it takes on Kuwait at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Tuesday.
The group- stage match between the sides last week had ended in 1- 1 draw, a contest that was flashed back more for the acrimony on the pitch than the quality of play. The anticipation from the final is for the football to triumph.
Both brigades come into the peak clash having played a truckload of games; it’ll be India’s ninth in under a month and Kuwait’s sixth in the same timespan. The players also had to work hard in their separate semifinals, demanding 120 twinkles and further to beat Lebanon and Bangladesh. Fatigue can be one of the deciding factors.
But the chance to win flatware should lift the hanging shoulders, if any.
Kuwait hasn’t secured a jewel since the 2010 Arabian Gulf Cup and a success then will help overcome the pain of losing an entire generation of footballers when FIFA suspended the nation for further than two times( October 2015 to December 2017).
For India, a alternate winner’s order in a one- month window will be a confidence- supporter leading up to the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.
That it hasn’t lost a match in four jaunts against good West Asian sides in Lebanon and Kuwait, and conceded only through an own thing, are noteworthy.
Credit for that should go to India’s defence, which has kept nine clean- wastes from the last 10 matches. Indeed a rejigged backline, marshalled by goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, held establishment against Lebanon.
There’s therefore a selection mystification for the Indian think- tank to break, but stand- in trainer Mahesh Gawli’s transuded quiet confidence in Monday’spre-match briefing, maybe buttressed by the presence of some nicely well- rested and quality protectors to choose from.
On his part, Kuwait trainer Rui Bento was stoic and impassive. When he did speak, it was with pregnant pauses.
But towards the end he sounded perverse when a scribe suggested that his side was “ too physical ” in the former game against India. There was indeed a veiled dig at the hosts, as he hoped that “ nothing puts pressure on the adjudicator. ” Know More Latest Football News…
