Importance of the friendlies in the football!

Nothing is more joyful for the supporters to watch their team play against the stronger opponents.

Especially when it comes to the men's national football team, which rarely gets to play.

Now, with the news coming that federation have arranged for the friendlies against Bahrain and Belarus, it brought cheers in the Indian football arena.

Mainly supporters are happy as they were demanding it from the months.

It will bring a great opportunity for the national team players and the coach to use the challenge for the good.

With the! Asian Cup 2023 qualifiers going to be held in the month of june later this year.

The importance of these two friendlies increases multifold.

With the league short enough that players even can attend degree colleges, the friendlies will bring them to the continuous hardwork.

As only a set of players will taste the asian competitiveness in the AFC Champions league, and the AFC Cup, so to make rest aware of the opportunity, up for the grab we need something to get them ready.

Challenge ahead !

Challenge is big enough for us to analyse better and improve upon the lagging points.

As both the teams are better on paper and so does on the field. Every mistake will amount to the loss and we certainly don't want to lose with the 6 goal margin.

So, with giving opportunities to the young shells, coach will have to amount the experience too.

A mistake in the U-23 AFC qualifiers costed us the whole tournament and we certainly don't want to lose it again.

Effect on the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers.

As the qualifiers will bring another challenge for us to take, these friendlies after the Asian cup draw will help us in preparing better.

Knowledge of the opponents will help us in building us accordingly to the future,win or better performance in the march will give us strength to take on further.

It will give a huge boost for the players and the supporters.

What to look out for ?

With the Indian players shining in this season, the pool for the selection is increasing.

Like the last time, coach will get the options to play and analyse but with competition lying up in months, opportunities are less.

We can't forget, how badly we played when we changed the composition of the team.

It is quite understandable that new faces will emerge and rightful so, they must be given an opportunity to represent.

So, these two friendlies will help us in filtering out the errors for the smoother run in the future.

A look at the opponents.

Bahrain is very known to us in the terms of the Asian cup, having lost to last minute penalty goal last time.

After that, they have improved alot, a team which is passionate and can fight till the end.

Would be a great opportunity to face and learn, so to acknowledge it in the future matches.

Having Asian cup meeting chances, it is further an experience to certainly have.

They missed the third round world cup qualifiers by the margin of 2 points, so they have immensely improved unlike us.

Belarus, is not known to us but a team from Europe is a challenge which is more than worthy to have.

It will immensely help us in analysing our team's play against the stronger outfits.

Surely can tear us apart if we give then an inch to penetrate.

So it is surely something to look for in the month of march !

 Conclusion !

 We can definitely say that these two opportunities are great enough for us to learn and improve.

Surely challenging too but in this pandemic, by arranging these matches federation have done it's duty even with the limited options.

It's now up to us and the supporters, how to grab it and see through the ends.

Overall, an interesting setup to look for!