MANY players of Philippine national women’s football team are offensive threats.
National coach Mark Torcaso said this after the team wrap up its training camp in the United Arab Emirates.
“To score eight goals in the last two games is very good. Lots of different goal scorers as well, which is good for us,” said Torcaso.
In their last friendly with the UAE, the Filipinas beat the host squad, 4-0, at the UAE Football Association Headquarters in Dubai.
Facing a more defensively resilient UAE side this time around, the Filipinas sent in goals from four different scorers.
“It’s about building on the way we want to play and hopefully in the highlights, you’ll see the really good goals we scored. Really pleased with how the girls played in the last two games,” added Torcaso.
Hali Long, Carleigh Frilles and Chandler McDaniel all found the targets after the halftime break. Their goals came after Sara Eggesvik struck in the opener.
“We need to understand that we’re going to play in the Asian Cup Qualifiers, and we’re going to be playing teams like this that are defensively very good. So playing UAE now is extremely good because, we’re going to come up against Cambodia, Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabia,” said Torcaso.
The win gave the Filipinas a total of eight goals since their first friendly, where they pulled off a 4-1 win over the United Arab Emirates on Friday.