SAFF Championship – Ali Asfaq Double HatTrick Demolish Sri Lanka

Maldives starts in style to claim their first three points in the tournament with a 10-0 victory over Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka concedes two penalties in the first half which sees them hard toiled against the four times SAFF Championship finalist. Ali Asfaq completes his double hat trick which remains the first double hat trick of the tournament ever.

The sorrow moment started for Sri Lanka in the just fifth minute of the kick off as Asadhulla Abdulla scored the quickest goal of the tournament so far to give Maldives the lead. Sri Lanka’s trouble replicated since their first choice keeper Mohamed Imran was sent off for his tackle on Ali Asfaq who converted the penalty to double the lead. Maldives got another goal through penalty as Asfaq converted the penalty which aided him to break Belal Arezou’s previous record of most goal in the match. Maldives ended 3-0 at the first half final whistle.

Ali Asfaq got his hat trick early in second half scoring in 51^st minute of the game. The Maldivian sensational completed his double hat trick which remained the first double hat trick in SAFF Championship ever. Hassan Adhuham and Ali Umar remained other players who scored in Pakistan’s humiliating defeat.

Records in the Game.

-Quickest goal of SAFF Championship 2013 so far : Asadhulla Abdulla in fifth minute.

-First Red card of the tournament : Mohamed Imran in nineteenth minute

-First Hat Trick of the tournament: Ali Asfaq

-Highest individual goal in a match in SAFF Championship.  Ali Asfaq(6), breaks Belal Arezou’s previous record of 4.

-First player to score double hat trick in SAFF Championship ever : Ali Asfaq

-Maldives break their own record to win with the highest Margin in SAFF. They previously won Afghanistan 9-1 back in 2005.

-Ali Asfaq is now all time highest goal scorer in SAFF with 14 goals as he surpass Bhaichung Bhutia’s previous record of 12.