As we all know that Indian football team is in Dubai for International match without their captain Sunil Chhetri. Yesterday Team played its first match against Oman. Good news is that Team handle to played well without Sunil Chettri and a young side came up with an impressive show to hold higher-ranked Oman to a 1-1 draw in the first of their two international friendlies in Dubai. In this match Manvir Singh's fine headed-goal in the 2nd half helped India share honours at the Maktoom Bin Rashid Stadium on Thursday.
For your information let us share that India handed senior debuts to a record tally of 10 players during the hard-fought encounter, which marked their return to international football after 492 days. Igor Stimac's men went down trailing 0-1 after Zahir Al Aghbari's strike that followed a poor defensive error. Despite putting a strong show in the first half, the Blue Tigers headed to the break handing over the lead to Oman.
Here it is needed to mentioned that India came back strongly in the second half and secured the equaliser when Manvir Singh headed a lovely cross from young Bipin Singh who had scored the winning goal for Mumbai City FC in the Indian Super League final. Overall this match was a draw between India and Oman with 1-1 score. India will next take on UAE in their 2nd international friendly on Saturday in Dubai.
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