AFC Under-14 Girls Regional Championships: India Under-14 Girls drub Tajikistan 8-1!

It’s raining hattricks for the India Under-14 Girls in the AFC Under-14 Girls Regional Championships. If it was Suman who netted the first hattrick of the Championship against hosts Sri Lanka in the inaugural match, it was Daya Devi who scored another hattrick for India as the defending champions notched up a comprehensive 8-1 victory against Tajikistan on Friday, March 21.

Courtesy the victory, India sit pretty at the top of the points table on six points along with Iran and Nepal also on six points.

However, it was Suman who opened the scoring for India in the 6th minute at the Baddegana Football Training Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Daya scored her first goal in the 21st minute with Roja making it 3-0 in the 27th minute.

Changing over, Amin scored her first of her two goals in the 37th minute only for Daya to score her second three minutes later. Daya completed her hattrick in the 56th minute. The other two goals for India were scored by Amin (48th) and Roja (62nd).

In the other two matches of the day, Nepal beat Sri Lanka 1-0 while Iran drubbed Bhutan 6-0.

Edited by Staff Editor