In SAFF Women’s Championship, India will face Bhutan in the second Semi-final at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao, Goa today. The match will kick off at 8 PM.
Five-time champions India enter the knockout clash finishing top of Group B with maximum points. India began their campaign with an emphatic 11-0 victory over Maldives before convincingly blanking defending champions Bangladesh 3-0.
Heading into the contest as favourites, the hosts side is further boosted with the arrival of forward Manisha Kalyan. She was released by her Peruvian club Alianza Lima for the June FIFA International Match Window that started on June 1.
Ranked 69th in the FIFA rankings, India are nearly 100 places above Bhutan, who occupy the 164th position. The two nations have met only twice before, with India winning both encounters by an aggregate score of 29-0.
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