Dhaka, May 29: Bangladesh takes on Singapore in a Fifa Friendly International focusing upon the build up for the next month’s World Cup Qualifiers at the Bangbandhu National Stadium at 4:00 pm on Saturday.

In  the pre-match presser at the BFF House on Friday both the team expressed their desire to grab the opportunities in an important match ahead of their World Cup Qualifiers. The German coach of Singapore Bernd Stange promised an attacking brand of football. “I may term Bangladesh as the Dark Horse as we know very little about them, but we respect our opponents and we will be firing all cylinders to present and entertaining and attacking brand of football” said the German.

“There are 11 players who recently won the F.A. Cup in Malaysia playing for Lions XII, we are prepared for a tough challenge and the conditions are not a headache for us” he added.

Saiful Bari Titu, the Bangladesh coach attended the presser in the place of Dutch head coach Lodewijk de Kruif who fell sick in the morning. “It’s a very important match for us as we will we focus on the style we want to adopt against Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, these matches are very important to us, we want build the team for the ultimate challenges and the players are fit and ready for the challenge” said Titu.

Singapore skipper Sarjil Ishaq will be playing his 121^st match. 

Channel 9 will be transmitting the match live.

Bangladesh played with Singapore only once till date and the match held in Merdeka Cup in 1973 ended 1-1.