\u201cUzbekistan are a strong team though we have played quite a few matches against them in recent years. They seem to have changed the way they operate, however, since their Japanese coach (Midori Honda) took over.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"They used to play a lot of direct football before, with a lot of long, aerial balls to break down the opponents. They have now adopted a more technical game, where they like to keep the ball on the ground and play it between each other. We did reasonably well against them last year, but we have to be prepared to play our best game in these two matches,\u201d said Devi to theaiff.com<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Indian women's football has seen impressive progress in the past year with the Indian Women's League (IWL) having changed its format in the previous season. All teams were told they would be playing on a home-and-away basis in the five-month season that followed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cOur team is progressing a lot. We saw the results in the Turkish Women\u2019s Cup, and our team did very well to handle quality teams that regularly play in Europe. We must keep playing such matches in the international windows to improve ourselves. You learn to handle lots of things when you play such teams right from tactics, formations, and decision-making.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Yes, we lost against Kosovo in our last match, but the fact that we managed to hold such a strong team till injury time speaks a lot. It\u2019s the small things that make the difference against such teams, and our girls are also learning them,\u201d concluded the Indian skipper.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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