KATHMANDU, May 16: Nepal Police Club (NPC) played a goalless draw with Pakistan´s WAPDA on Saturday in its second match under the AFC Presidents´ Cup Group ´A´ qualifiers held at the Dasharath Stadium. [break]
Police dominated the entire match but once again came up with their old problem in the finishing line as they failed to score any. Police missed more than as a dozen beautiful chances of scoring. The Most Valuable Player of the match WAPDA custodian Aziz also remained a big obstacle to the Police as he prevented several powerful attempts made by the home side.
With this draw, Police have earned one point. Police, who are at the bottom of the table, still have a slim chance of entering into the next round.
Police seemed to be unlucky from the beginning as a post attempt in the third minute by Yogesh Shrestha off Bhola Silwal´s cross pass from inside the D-box bounced after hitting the pole. Likewise, WAPDA goalie made a spectacular dive to send out a sitter of striker Jumanu Rai that he capitalized from a miss pass of the opponent.
In the 17th minute, WAPDA goalie made an intelligent dive and punched Bhola Silwal´s header on Rabin Shrestha´s pass above the bar. Likewise, in the 32nd minute, young striker Chetan Ghimire´s header off Yogesh Shrestha´s cross pass went wide. In the 42nd minute, WAPDA goalie prevented Deepak´s powerful shot from the line of D-box. WAPDA could not make any post attempt in the first half.
WAPDA came up with a better performance in the second half though Police´s domination continued. Police went on with their attack but all in vain. Police made other powerful attacks in the 50th, 60th, 62nd and in the injury time, too, while Pakistan made only two remarkable post attempts.
Meanwhile, the disappointed Nepali fans shouted slogans against the Police after the completion of the match.
"It was a one-sided game, but we failed to make any breakthrough," said Police coach Birat Krishna Shrestha. "We were better than WAPDA but we were weakness in the finishing line," Shrestha added.
WAPDA coach Khalid Butt said, "The draw is satisfactory, but we had thought we could win. Our players were exhausted, too". Commenting on the Police, he said, "The home team had the fitness problem."
In the tensed second match of the day, Regar Tadaz beat Taiwan Power Company (TPC) 3-1. Altogether eight cards were shown in the match -- including three red and five yellow cards.TPC that were restricted to nine men in the 76th minute got the first marching order from the Japanese referee Ogiya Kenji in the 16th minute.
P-Y Lin was sent out from the ground for bad tackle against Rabimov of Tajak. Both the team conceded a red card each in the 76th minute after they quarreled in the ground. Defender M-F Tu of TPC and defender Rustamov of Tadaz were given the marching order. Rustamov was sent out after he was shown two yellow cards.
Tadaz conceded the first goal in the 28th minute through Rabimov utilizing a corner kick from Ismoilov. C-J Fang leveled the match in the 79th minute through a header utilizing the corner off S-C Huang.
Tadaz doubled the advantage in the 83rd minute through Rustamov and Eminov added another goal two minutes later.
TPC coach Chen Kuei Jen said, "We played the best but unfortunately we lost." Khabibulloeva Makhmadjon, Tadaz coach, said TPC were a good team and it was not an easy task to win over them.
Points Table
| Teams | Played | Win | Loss | Draw | Pts |
| Regar Tadaz | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Taiwan Power Company | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| WAPDA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Nepal Police | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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