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Hosts want to win

Coach Titu expects attacking football from Lanka in the final friendly today

A'HQUE Anam from Rajshahi
Is Saiful Bari Titu already feeling the heat? The candid
admission of the interim head coach of Bangladesh national football team pointed that way during the pre-match press conference in Rajshahi yesterday, ahead today's second and final match of the SS Steel FIFA International Friendly Series.
"To be honest, I am under a bit of pressure," said Titu when asked about his team's performance in the first match. "The way we played the first match, we should have won. The way the match was played, we should have won. However, pressure can be good if you use it as a motivation and we want to win this match and entertain the crowd as well."
It was during Titu's first stint at the helm of the national side that Bangladesh endured their worst result against Sri Lanka, a 3-0 defeat in the AFC Challenge Cup in 2010 in Colombo. As luck would have it, Titu is up against the same opponents in the first assignment of his third stint. The AFC pro-licensed coach is also shouldered with the burden of getting the side out of a winless streak of five matches, with their last win coming in March 2013 against Northern Mariana Islands. Hence only a win today may ease some of the pressure from the coach as well as the team.
But Titu admitted it would be a tough job getting a win against a young Lankan sidewho have 'astounding fitness level and are very good at off-the-ball running as well as quick changes of position'.
Nikola Kavazovic, the Serbian coach of the Sri Lanka team, did his best to transfer the pressure to his counterpart. "More than 75 per cent of the teams who change coach win the first match under the new manager, because they try to prove something. Bangladesh had an almost perfect game in Jessore and enjoyed huge support which was a big advantage."
But despite the home support and the domination throughout the 90 minutes, the hosts could only eke out a draw in the first match on Friday. The Bangladesh coach thinks the first game was a learning experience for the team and what they learnt is that you can't afford to waste many chances in international matches.
Whether or not his players rectify their mistakes from the first match, Titu is willing to play in the same attacking vein and expects his opposite number to be a bit more adventurous, at least for the sake of entertainment. The coach hinted he may make a couple of changes to the side, but preferred to keep the cards close to his chest.
"We may have changes in the side but nothing is decided as yet. We have two objectives for tomorrow's |Monday's| game - we want to win it and we want to entertain the crowd as well. The Sri Lanka coach may try to make it a boring affair by taking a defensive approach, but we certainly won't play that way," said Titu.