Army's effort against crisis

Sankata's debut match in ANFA Women's League football was on Wednesday. And, if anything, it shows that the challenges women football has to overcome during the crisis are immense. Sankata was easily defeated by Army Club in the match at ANFA Complex in Satdobato.

However, even though the Army won by a good margin, the problem did not end. If Army had played as well as they could, the margin of victory would have been huge. There was a complete lack of coordination between the players in the team. So Army's leading player Deepa Shahi said it right. His response was, 'We have taken a winning start and managed to collect 3 points in this process. However, there are many areas that need to be improved in the team, we have to correct them and move forward. Why is this

? Deepa's analysis was correct. His argument was, "Now some new players have been added to the team. New players lack experience. They have yet to catch up with their old players. As long as this synergy is established, Tim's A

performance will definitely be good. She was also the player of the match. Army's assistant coach Tek Bahadur Budhathoki also said that it was an achievement to be able to get off to a winning start.

Sankata team entered the field with three foreign players. His influence was evident. Tenning Sene, a member of the Senegalese national team, played the role of goalkeeper. She made some great saves. Another defender was Selina Emima. He is a player from Ghana. She held off the army's attack for an hour straight. By the time she was injured and had to leave the field, Army had added 3 goals.

Selina arrived in Kathmandu only on Tuesday. She took to the field within a day. Savitri Devi Magar scored the first goal of the game. In the 19th minute, she cleverly headed the ball past Vimala Chaudhary to the post. Selina was injured when the match reached one hour. Soon after, Vimala added the second goal in the 62nd minute. Chandra Bhandari unselfishly provided a pass and Vimala easily scored from close range. The

ing third goal was a suicide. In the 71st minute of the game, Anusha Thebe's header from Army's corner hit the post. Anita Namgyal scored the fourth and final goal in the 77th minute. Anita easily scored from Chandra's pass. Sankata was unable to weave a very dynamic attack throughout the game. Most of Sankat's players were U-16, U-18 and U-19 and almost all of them were playing in the league for the first time.

'This game was difficult for us,' Sankata's coach Ravindra Silakar said, 'Most of our players are of the same age group. They did not play football at such a high level. It was difficult for them when they played on a big field at once.''One of his arguments was right. Apart from the three departmental teams, Sankata can submit its claim for the fourth best team. If Sankata can land four foreign players, this team will be a strong candidate for the top five.

Thursday's match will be between Koshi against Wagmati and Karnali against Walling.