Olympic Qualifiers: Indian women's football team ready for must-win final against Myanmar

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Apr 08, 2019, 06:02 PM IST

India, however, will miss the services of their dependable first goalkeeper Aditi Chauhan, who is out with injury.

Indian women's football team will have to come out all guns blazing against a formidable Myanmar side in a must-win final round-robin game of the 2020 Olympic Qualifying tournament, in Mandalay (Myanmar) on Tuesday.

India will need to win the encounter in order to proceed to the next round while a draw will be enough for the hosts to qualify with better goal difference.

"In the 14 International matches that these girls have played in the span of 3 months, each one of them has displayed that they are capable of greatness. We won the SAFF Championship in Nepal against Nepal in the finals in an intimidating environment where the crowd was booing us with every touch of the ball we had." "To expect girls some of whom are barely 20 to play the way we did, might be overreaching, but they did it. They proved that age is just a number," an elated Rocky said.