Bahrain coach Hosni Zouaoui was not happy with his players' performance against Singapore even though they emerged 3-0 victorsTASHKENT – Bahrain coach Hosni Zouaoui was not satisfied despite his side's 3-0 win against Singapore in their second Group A match of this year's AFC U16 Championship at Pakhtakor stadium on Monday.
Bahrain had a 1-0 lead in the first half thanks to a long-range strike from Salman Ahmed before Sayed Dhiya Saeed and Dheya Salman scored in the second half to seal their side’s win.
"Personally, I'm not happy with the result because we should have scored more than three goals," said the Tunisian coach. "The players were over-confident in the match and that's why they couldn't add more goals.
"We should have had a better result. Our players tried to finish the chances so quickly and they lost their concentration after scoring the third goal and they couldn't add more goals.
"We have defeated Singapore in a previous match and that's why the players underestimated them. I warned the players to have a serious performance but they didn't as they were satisfied with their performance in the first game."
On the contrary, Singapore’s Japanese coach Kageyama Masanaga was pleased with the improved performance of his side after they lost 7-0 in their first match against hosts Uzbekistan.
"We lost the first match 7-0 against Uzbekistan where were missing eight players," said Masanaga. "I'm happy that I had all my players today and our players showed a good mentality after the shock of the first match.
"In the first half, I asked the players not to rush and to play calmly. I told them that chances will come but they continued with their quick play and they lost the ball easily.
"It was an open game from both sides today as both teams had chances to score.
"However, we couldn't score from the chances that we had while Bahrain scored three.
"Bahrain scored two goals in the second half because of our defensive mistakes which came due to lack of communication between our players, but we have to accept that as this is what we have."
Source:The AFC.com
