Honduras 0 - 1 Bangladesh (392315346)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 96929 to Planet Chess Stadium. Bill Schmidgall was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Vítor Tavares and Gelindo Boncompagni. U-20 Honduras started off with a 2-5-3 lineup. Lineup: Avendaño - Merino, Aguilar - Camacho, Atrian, Paz, Herrerías, López Méndez - Rojas, Bejarano, Medellín.

U-20 Bangladesh decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. Starters: Raza - Pintu, Zia, Ahmad, Atre - Fazi, Jaffar, Alam, Bashar - Shakil, Aziz.

U-20 Honduras mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. Counter-attacking seemed to be the preferred strategy of U-20 Bangladesh. The head of M. Shakil connected with a corner kick after 4 minutes, and the ball ended up with N. Atre of U-20 Bangladesh who blasted the ball into the net, making the score 0 - 1. Some fine passing in the middle of the pitch, carving open the away defence, should have led to a goal for U-20 Honduras, but A. Paz's shot went over the bar. 39 minutes into the game, U-20 Bangladesh seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a passable level of organisation. U-20 Honduras tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. A counterattack by U-20 Bangladesh after 43 minutes could have resulted in a goal, but M. Aziz, coming in on the left, couldn't get the shot off. Halftime score was 0 - 1. U-20 Honduras enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 70 percent of possession.

The U-20 Bangladesh players spent the break getting a rerun of the team's tactical organisation and regained a solid organisation when the game started again. Although the whole team were struggling to impress, U-20 Honduras's M. López Méndez was singled out as being the problem as he was called off the pitch after 46 minutes. C. Duarte was given a chance to change things around. Unhappy with the result so far in the game, the U-20 Honduras manager used a brief break in play after 46 minutes to give the players new directives. With 46 minutes played, the U-20 Honduras coach decided a substitution may help turn the game around. G. Ximénez came on, W. Bejarano had to leave the fray. U-20 Honduras put pressure on the visitors' central defence 70 minutes into the game, but V. Rojas couldn't find an opening. C. Camacho made a superb strike after 87 minutes with a shot straight in front of the goal after a long ball through the middle, but one of the visitors' defenders got a foot in at the last second and warded it off for a corner. Under heavy pressure after 87 minutes, the inexperienced U-20 Bangladesh struggled to maintain their level of play. After 88 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as U-20 Bangladesh found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to passable. Possession in this half belonged to U-20 Honduras, who controlled the ball 69 percent of the time.

The most dominating U-20 Honduras player was without a doubt V. Rojas. C. Camacho was a disappointment, however. M. Aziz performed admirably for U-20 Bangladesh. W. Alam on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 0 - 1.