Filipinas rout Pakistan to kick off Olympic qualifying tournament


Filipinas' Sarina Bolden in a Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament game. –PFF PHOTO

Filipinas’ Sarina Bolden in a Ladies’s Olympic Qualifying Event sport. –PFF PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines–The Philippines rolled to a 4-0 victory over Pakistan on Wednesday as its marketing campaign within the first spherical of the Ladies’s Olympic Qualifying Event started in Tajikistan.

Hali Lengthy, Sarina Bolden and Eva Madarang scored within the first half earlier than substitute Chandler McDaniel struck late in her return because the Filipinas took the complete three factors at Hisor Central Stadium.

Coach Alen Stajcic’s facet gave itself a very good headstart within the bid to achieve the subsequent spherical of the qualifier for subsequent 12 months’s Paris Video games.

The Filipinas play host Tajikistan on Saturday.

Lengthy broke the ice for the Philippines within the twenty second minute when she scored a header from shut vary.

Bolden doubled the lead within the twenty fifth earlier than Madarang made it 3-0 when she fired a screamer on the half-hour mark.

The fourth goeal got here minutes earlier than the second half stoppage time as McDaniel scored in her first match since taking place with an ACL harm within the AFC Ladies’s Asian Cup.

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