Maybe new naturalized players' impact. Ali Mabkhout scored hat-trick against both India & Bahrain. He is now equal with Lionel Messi and just 1 goal behind Chhetri in active international top-scorers chart.
UAE is struggling in WCQ against ASEAN teams. They need a strong performance in June.
Philippines has a good squad right now. Stimac should play the best 11 and get the substitutions also sorted for the game against Qatar. Defense is the key so Sandesh & Sana to partner and ideally Adil and Narender should remain unused subs. He should see who performs better at LB between Akash/Subhashish and RB between Pritam/Rahul by giving each player a half. I feel he may try a defensive formation in this friendly keeping the game against Qatar in mind
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UAE is struggling in WCQ against ASEAN teams. They need a strong performance in June.
After last time experience against UAE nobody want to watch dangerous scientific experiments performed by Dr Stimac