Welcome to this exclusive live update thread of the Bangladesh vs Pakistan, 2014 FIFA World Cup AFC qualifiers Round One, 2nd Leg being held at Punjab Stadium in Lahore today on 3rd July 2011.
Kick-off time is 8:30 PM PST (GMT+5) with PTV National showing the game live on television across Pakistan (if you are lucky enough to get it!).
As a result, there are NO STREAMS AVAILABLE to view the game, unless Bangladeshi channels also cover the game and stream it live!
We will attempt to update all of you fans by live text updates through our facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/footballpakistan as our staff members are present inside Punjab Stadium!
Pakistan are in desperate need to win this game by at least 4 goals after losing 0-3 to Bangladesh in their rain-ravaged 1st leg loss on 29 June in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Stadium. The task seems extremely daunting but never say never in football.
Squads:
Pakistan: Jaffer Khan (captain), Jehangir Khan, Mohamamd Omar, Samar Ishaq, Alamgir Khan, Kamran Khan, Mohammad Ahmad, Atif Bashir, Faisal Iqbal (vice-captain), Manzoor Ahmad, Arif Hussain, Kaleemullah, Mehmood Khan, Hasnain Abbas, Ahmad Akbar Khan, Arif Mehmood, Mohammad Qasim, Mohammad Ikram, Mohammad Rasool, Adnan Farooq,
Bangladesh: Biplob Bhattacharaje (captain), Nasirul Islam Nasir, Ariful Islam, Attiqur Rahman Meshu, Zahid Hossain, Mamunul Islam, Mithun Chowdhury, Jahid Hussain, Shakil Ahmed, Abdul Baten Mojumder Komal, Youuf Ali Khan, Noman Khan Raju, Mohammad Shakawat Hossain Rony, Yousuf Linkon, Yameen Ahmed, Chaudhry Munna, Mamun Khan, MD Nehal, Razul Karim
Pak line-up:
Jaffar Khan (GK, Capt);
Faisal Iqbal (VC), Samar Ishaq, Manzoor Ahmed, M Ahmed;
Hussnain Abbas, Adnan Ahmed, Atif Bashir, M Qasim;
Arif Mehmood, M Rasool
Match has begun!
5′: Pak pressing strongly in opening minutes, with WAPDA striker Arif ‘Arifi’ Mehmood being flagged for offside!
Pakistan must score early if they have any chance of overcoming the massive deficit!
8′: Bangladesh playing it cool in defence, and pressuring Pakistan on the left flank with some counter-attacking football.
10′: Pakistan gets two great chances to score in quick succession. Adnan Ahmed unable to utilise being clean through on goal, and moments later Arifi shoots just wide.
13′: Atif “Bulldozer” Bashir tearing apart the Bangla midfield with some strong tackles in centre. M Ahmed charged up as left-back, with a Bangla player booked for time wasting!
20′: Bangladesh making mistakes in their half and conceding freekicks. KESC striker Muhammad Rasool wastes a 25 yard free-kick, only for Bangladesh to again concede a free kick one minute later, which again comes to nothing for Pakistan.
It remains 0-0. Bangladesh playing a cautious 4-4-1-1 formation with Pakistan attempting an aggressive 4-4-2.
21′: Atif Bashir just misses the target with an audacious over-head kick!!!
28′: Arifi and Rasool waste a corner as Pakistan still try to get a goal after nearly half an hour played!
30′: Jaffar Khan seems determined. Takes a great catch from a Bangladeshi corner from left side.
33′: Injury for Muhammad Qasim as he is taken off and replaced by fellow KRL team mate (and hate figure) Kaleem Ullah!
Punjab Stadium’s general enclosures are packing with fans! The VVIP enclosure more or less empty.
43′: Husnain Abbas misses a free header. Misfiring up front once again! Strikers waste another opportunity a minute later
Half Time: it remains 0-0. Pakistan pressing hard but fail to find the target with a nervy Bangladesh looking content with defending in numbers.
Word has it that Tariq Lutfi may resign from national team coach post after the game if Pakistan fail to win.
Former KESC goalkeeper Muhammad Omer (now of NBP) returns to Pak team and is on bench after injury lay-off. But changing keepers would be disastrous for Pakistan!
2nd half begins!
45′: Faisal Iqbal tries to beat 4 players but is tackled well by Bangla defenders.
46′: Adnan Ahmed’s 25 yard blast just goes inches wide!!! Would have been the goal Pakistan were desperately hoping for but alas…
48′: Atif “Bulldozer” Bashir once again being the best Pak player in the game! jumps nearly 4 FEET in air to clear a header from 35 yards out! Fans loving him!
Kaleem Ullah still clueless like in his 14 previous international youth/senior games! wasting ball after ball after ball!!!
50′: Hasnain Abbas’ 45 yard lob nearly beats Bangla keeper Biplob Bhattacharaje! still agonisingly 0-0!
54′: Bangladesh almost get a chance to score!!! Some weird defending by Samar and Manzoor and Jaffar Khan’s hesitancy to come off his line almost ends the game for Pakistan!
Kaleem Ullah continues being out of sorts on the pitch. Very poor! Cannot even get a pass right!
60′: Samar Ishaq’s cross to Arif Mehmood punched away by Bangla keeper. Arifi was unmarked! Good goalkeeping by Biplob!
63′: A very good set piece by M Rasool but no heads to meet it at the end to put the ball in back of Bangla net! Another chance goes begging!
Bangladesh are looking good to avoid defeat and go through to meet Lebanon in Round Two!
70′: 0-0 it remains. Pakistan running out of steam. Bangladesh playing it safe. M Rasool subbed off, cannot yet identify who came on for him (#19).
73′: and some how Kaleem Ullah again gets involved in messing up a Pak chance! Samar Ishaq’s 25 yard free kick gets deflected away for a Bangla goalkick after it hits Kaleem Ullah’s foot!
77′: Adnan Ahmed has not had a good game with lack of support from his wingers and strikers. Hasnain Abbas blasts every chance he gets wide…Sydney native Ahmed Akber Khan comes on for Arif Mehmood….
81′: Bangladesh playing it easy. They know they are less than 10 minutes away from confirming their place in next round. Pakistan chasing the game but losing morale as minutes tick by
Atif Bashir being the only bright spot for Pakistan! Surely another man of the match for him!
85′: Pakistan resort to long-ball, and Bangladesh more than happy to deal with them…
0-0 it remains at Punjab Stadium in Lahore. Bangladesh lead a comfortable 3-0 on aggregate as they have less than five minutes left before going through to meet Lebanon in Round Two!
Bangladesh absorbed early pressure and eventually got well stuck in the game to keep Pakistan chasing the game as time runs out.
90′: 3 minutes of stoppage time. 3 minutes for Bangladesh to ease away and go through happy. 3 minutes before we could say bye bye to Lutfi & Co.
Fans leaving the ground. Cant blame them. Bangladesh counting down the final seconds!
FULL TIME: Pakistan held 0-0 by Bangladesh. Bangladesh go through to next round 3-0 on aggregate. Worthy over-all winners.
Time for Tariq Lutfi, Nasir Ismail, Gohar Zaman etc to pack up and leave! Their coaching reign has been nothing but a disaster! Failure in Olympic qualifiers, failure in AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers, failure in World Cup qualifers! EPIC FAIL!
Make no mistake. Bangladesh were worthy deserving winners. Got 3 vital goals in 1st leg, and stuck to a game plain in Lahore to avoid conceding. All the best to Bangladesh in next round!
WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE IN OUR COVERAGE BECAUSE OF FREQUENT WEBSITE CRASHES!
WE DID OUR BEST!
HOPE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM BANGLADESH CELEBRATE PROGRESS TO NEXT ROUND!
All the best to them!
Good night, Shab ba khair, khuda hafiz…and a JOY BANGLA to our Bangladeshi visitors!
Go
Bangladesh, go………………..want a 5-0 today………………..
dont get happy i dnt lke it….. pakisatan gunna hammer u !!!!!!!!!!! pakistan zidabad :)
Pakistan will lose it inshAllah. Today, Bangladesh will teach you how to play football.
pakistan ZI DAbad :)
thats it mate u tell them
pakistan ke tama tama kor dia ai
Go Bangla Boyz!!
bangla boys, allof you go home and take your players and go eat sme fish man… du wat ur gud at!!!!
Pakistan, do wat you’re good at, dat is BEATEN UP by Bangladesh!!!!!!
beaten up by sme jokes… dont get happy mate we are well better than u fish people!!! the first game conditions were terrible how can u play football in that???? u a bit daft mate???
A proverb goes that ‘A bad workman quarrels with his tools’ means ‘nachte na janle uthan baka’…
so you were eating allu parata when we beat u 3-0….aint fair u call a nation fish….fish improves ur brain which u dont have…all allu inside
atleast we got sumat inside bloody der brains!!!!!!
maaraa khaa……..
hope bd wil also do well in pakistan…best of luck for bd boys
rajakarder size kor
sapon mizi Bangladesh will win by 1-0
Its impossible to score 4 goals by Pakistan against a better team
pakistan are better mat and we will score for goals inshallah, so u just sit down, and keep your mouth closed… thanks mate :)
dream on.
i aint dreaming mate, reality, lucky we havent got zesh playing today otherwise we would have DEMOLISHED you!!!!!!!! evaiii
Grapes are sour!!!
i have read your comments before. Quite honestly, they are nothing but immature rants of a lunatic. Zishan Rehman aka your Zesh played in more than one game against Bangladesh. I believe the number could be 3. Pakistan failed to score a single goal in any one of them. In two of them, Bangladesh won, including one played in Pakistan and one match was drawn, which made Bangladesh the group champion while Pakistan failed to advance from the group stage! We all know very well what your Zesh can do! So, yes as I said, keep day-dreaming.
wae up mate u didnt say “day dreaming” used “dreaming and my “zesh” is the best pakistan have ever had in the history of the teaam… name me a better playerr…..?????
come on pakistn…. hammer them beat them badly…. pakistan all the way!!!!!!
This is so biased commentary!
just be happy that this is the best we can manage!!
no wonder!
compared with the almost zero coverage given to us for 1st Leg in Dhaka, its far better than that!
what is the bloody difference? This is absolutely “zero coverage” as well. Only mentioning what one team’s players are doing is the worst form of football commentary. Expected much better from you guys. You disappointed me.
you are welcome to find your own source then to keep you updated!
trust me, we would love to be as unbiased and as open as possible
but we have our own limitations and problems as it is! we are trying the best we can. have a heart, bache!
Well I appreciate you guys running the forum better than any others in South Asia on football related topics. Hence I expected little fairness in the commentary.
What does “bache” mean?
bache = kid (in a friendly way!)
well if we are a bit more familiar with Bangla players we would have done our best
but fact is Bangla are playing defensive, and Pakistan is doing all the attacking (and not making it count)!
Bangladesh must be won the match inshaallah.
If we really talk about Pakistan & football, we still need alot of changes, we are still struggling our play is not upto the mark, we need the good and professional international coach who is comitted on longterm basis to improvise the team and good players specially from Karachi – Lyari who are ignoring always as they also having good talent but never polished inducted in Pakistan team, and also on club levels all over pakistan
bangladesh can beat easily pakistan at lahore, bt problem is they r tired nd didnt get enough practice together nd last match they won 3-0, thty they r relax now………
Tody bangladesh will do banglawash of pakistan.
bangladesh technically way better team then pakistan
mawra go re chudi…
kharap languse use koro ken?
Vamos Bangladesh.Play like tigers.
all the way Bangladesh!!!here u see how be the winner!!!hahahahahahaha…BD rockz!!! 3-0 victory on the 1st leg…n now this kinda quality soccer!woww!!bravo!!! :D
akkabaare gaaraaiyaa de fakistani gore……..
Bangladeshi players are tired of playing 6 months of league soccer without any break. They have an encounter with Lebanon within less than 3 weeks. So play safe and a 0-0 would be enough. Bangladeshi players are quite clearly technically superior than their Pakistani counterparts.
chup kaar tired…. u lost du u nw how much football zeeshan rehman has played???? dnt see him complaining!!! evaiii, got no fitnesss????? should eat something apart from FISH!!!!
Bangladesh, tody will see their energetic performance.All the best Bangladesh.
anybody tell me how can i get live online result.
Joy Bangla , Banglar joy.
Hobe hobe hobe ! hobe Nishchoy !
koti pran ekshaathe , jegeche ondho raate e
notun surjo uthaar eeito somoy!!!
Joy Bangla , Banglar joy.
Hobe hobe hobe ! hobe Nishchoy !
koti pran ekshaathe , jegeche ondho raate e
notun surjo uthaar eeito somoy!!!
qasim fc: dear pakistani mate.better luck next time,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
i’ll stick fish up you mate.. then we’ll see wat better luck is !!!!!! :@
qasim fc: dear pakistani mate.better luck next time,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
OK I just checked the FIFA website for the match report and it shows Bangladesh did not even field their best attacking XI ! Good strategy by coach Nikola Ilievski. He rested the top attacking players for Lebanon match and employed a defensive line up that actually worked. Previously it was a problem for Bangladesh where Bangladesh could not play well enough with defensive strategies. Next up-Lebanon!
Waiting to see the faces of all da Pakis who think we Bengalis suck badd…Suck on cocks mates..U guys maybe better in cricket but we better in football!!
Ki dorkar ar mukh kharap korar ? Amra to jitsi e . Orao congratulate korse . . Ashen Celebrate kori !
Ahh…Here it is.Proved our ability.And thanks to new coach(ex coach of Mecedonia,who had drawn against England with 2-2 in 2002 and managed star like Pandev and Vudinic).Really lucky to have him.Thanks for providing live update.Next mission Lebanon.Hope it will not be that tough as they rank 178,far below then us.
A great gesture of Sportsmanship By every 1 here . Good luck to Pakistan as well . Thank you !
hi guys i could watch the match but i am vey happy to see such enthusiasm about football and such well managed match coverage site.. especially in Pakistan which i thought to be a literal wasteland for football…anyway since match is over and and heat generated between the fans little subsided we may expect pakistani brothers show us support and good wishes for the match against lebanon…
i think we deserve it a bit from you…. after all even after our rocky history as one nation.. it is these bangladeshi boys and girls who shows their love and support cheers for your hockey and cricket teams
i would like to thank the commentator who wrote the below concluding lines:
Good night, Shab ba khair, khuda hafiz…and a JOY BANGLA to our Bangladeshi visitors!
Faisal Saleh Hayat, Ahmed Yar Khan and the rest, I am expecting your resignation papers within 2 weeks!
Faisal Saleh is the worst president in PFF history! Lodhi and co. are slowly killing football in Pakistan.
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shabash BANGLADESH…. agie jao amra achi tomader sathe. ( welldone Bangledesh. go ahead.. we are with you :x :x
Hey u dick face Qasim FC y the hell ur pretending to be a aussie by calling everyone mate Ma k loday Pakistani hai na Pakistani reh apni auqat may haeay huay chodaye huay chor makar kos k bachay salay saray k saray !
Thanks commentators. You lost the game but won the prize for being courteous. You showed respect so our respect goes your way too.
InshAllah Lebanon will smash the fishes