Filipinas’ Katrina Guillou throughout a match towards Hong Kong on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China.–PILIPINAS WNFT PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines–The Philippines scored two targets late to outlive upset-minded Hong Kong, 3-1, on Friday and provides new coach Mark Torcaso a successful begin to his tenure within the girls’s soccer competitions of the Hangzhou Asian Video games on Friday.
Quinley Quezada scored amid a scramble within the field earlier than the top of regular time earlier than Katrina Guillou offered an insurance coverage aim to guarantee the Filipinas of the total three factors at Wenzhou Sports activities Middle Stadium.
Each targets accomplished the escape act of the Philippines towards the workforce it had overwhelmed handily final April within the first spherical of the Olympic Qualifying Match.
It was additionally the Filipinas’ first match since their debut look within the Fifa Ladies’s World Cup.
Torcaso was capable of steer the workforce to victory after being tapped final month to succeed coach Alen Stajcic, who left after the World Cup.
Issues seemed vivid after Sarina Bolden scored from the spot 9 into the match for her twenty third profession aim in a Filipinos shirt.
However Hong Kong shocked the Filipinas within the thirty ninth when Cheung Wai Ki fired a long-range try which goalkeeper Olivia McDaniel couldn’t forestall.
The scoreline stood till the 89th when confusion close to the aim line allowed Quezada to faucet within the go-ahead rating to place the Filipinas on high.
Quezada restored her tie with Bolden for many targets all-time by a Philippine girls’s participant.
Guillou would add the Filipinas’ third aim a minute into stoppage time, spinning previous a defender earlier than placing the ball behind the online.
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