Jubilant Sanchez shifts attention to China game

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Tuesday, October 14th 2014 03:53 PM

Yangon, Myanmar: Coach Felix Sanchez Bas believes Qatar are improving with every game after Tuesday's 2-0 win over Oman secured a place in the quarter-finals of the AFC U-19 Championship. Midfielder Ahmed Al Saadi reached the four-goal mark in the tournament so far to send Qatar back to Nay Pyi Taw, where they are set to take on China next Friday for a place in the semi-final. "We have improved gradually in every match so far in the tournament, we are displaying the right type of football," Sanchez saidin the post match press conference. "My kicked off matters today rather nervously, leading to various defensive errors that could have cost us dearly, but we managed to gather ourselves pretty quickly and soon demonstrated that we were clearly the more superior side of the two". He lamented the tight scheduling of the tournament in which his side is forced to play three games in just five days, "I don't think it's natural for players at this young age to be exposed to such grueling circumstances, it makes our job very difficult, as it becomes easier said than done with every match to recover, weather it is mentally or physically" "Now we have to shift our focus on the next match against China, it is an important game, but we will try not over-motivate the players, they have to realize that its just another match in which we have to do our best to get the result we are looking for".