Bangladesh women’s national football team head coach Golam Rabbani Choton said on Friday that the set pieces played a vital role in his plan to beat the physically strong Malaysia national football team. Bangladesh crushed Malaysia by 6-0 goals in the first match of the two-match series of FIFA Tier-1 Women’s International Football on Thursday. Bangladesh created several close chances from the set-piece including corner kicks, free kicks and long throw-ins throughout the match against their counterparts. “Set pieces are the main device in modern football. These set pieces also played a

vital role in my plan to beat the physically strong Malaysia. We have been doing a lot of work with set-pieces in training -- ball flight and speed, players’ position etc. So, the result is here,” Choton told The Daily Sun on Friday. Defender Akhi Khatun, who scored a brace from the set-piece, said that she did some special sessions on set pieces as she is the tallest player on the team. “My advantage