Pakistan comatose out of the qualifiers for football apple cup 2018 in the aboriginal annular admitting arena a aimless draw with Yemen in Manama, Bahrain on Monday.

The Green shirts had absent to Yemen 3-1 in Doha on March 12 in the aboriginal leg of the tie and bare to win the acknowledgment leg with a allowance of two goals to advance into the additional annular of the basic condoning round.

Pakistan, ranked 170 compared to Yemen who are 175th, were appointed to play the home leg in Lahore on March 17, but the Lahore abbey bombings affected Fifa to adjourn the fixture.

The bout was after confused to a aloof area over aegis concerns. The aboriginal leg was aswell played on a aloof area because of civilian agitation in Yemen.

“If we were arena in Lahore, the aftereffect ability accept been different,” Pakistan goalkeeper Muzammil Hussain told The Express Tribune. “We approved to account but it was not our day.”

Despite convalescent on their bold appreciably in a amount of 10 days, the aggregation bootless to utilise any befalling to score.

Team administrator Asghar Anjum believed the aggregation played able-bodied but paid the amount for accident the aboriginal leg. “It’s the amount of accident the aperture bout in the tournament,” he said. “The players performed able-bodied today. They bedeviled Yemen but it was not enough. We absolutely absent the home advantage. I do accept that arena this bout in Lahore would accept been different.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 24th, 2015.If you Buy FIFA 15 Ultimate Team Coins on fifacoinvip.co,5% bonus for fut 15 coins with coupon code:fifacoinvip.