<p>A 10-man India defended creditably well as they suffered a 0-1 defeat to Asian champions Qatar in their World Cup qualifying round match here on Thursday.</p>.<p>Abdel Aziz scored in the 33rd minute in a match completely dominated by the Qataris. The two sides had played out a goal-less draw in their first leg match here in September 2019.</p>.<p>Group toppers Qatar, who are yet to lose a match, had waves of attacks with their eight to nine players in the Indian half for most of the time. Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu had to pull off a series of saves to keep the margin of loss small.</p>.<p>India, however, played with 10 men from the 17th minute onwards after defender Rahul Bheke was red carded after a second booking. He had earlier received a yellow card in the ninth minute.</p>.<p>India did have two good moves in the match from counter attacks with Manvir Singh in the thick of things on both occasions.</p>.<p>India captain Sunil Chhetri, who returned to the team after recovering from Covid-19 infection, was replaced by Udanta Singh at the resumption of second half.</p>.<p>A winless India remained in fourth spot in Group E with three points from six matches.</p>.<p>Igor Stimac's men are two points behind Afghanistan (third with five points) who played out a 1-1 draw against Bangladesh earlier in the day.</p>.<p>India play Bangladesh on June 7 in their next match. </p>
<p>A 10-man India defended creditably well as they suffered a 0-1 defeat to Asian champions Qatar in their World Cup qualifying round match here on Thursday.</p>.<p>Abdel Aziz scored in the 33rd minute in a match completely dominated by the Qataris. The two sides had played out a goal-less draw in their first leg match here in September 2019.</p>.<p>Group toppers Qatar, who are yet to lose a match, had waves of attacks with their eight to nine players in the Indian half for most of the time. Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu had to pull off a series of saves to keep the margin of loss small.</p>.<p>India, however, played with 10 men from the 17th minute onwards after defender Rahul Bheke was red carded after a second booking. He had earlier received a yellow card in the ninth minute.</p>.<p>India did have two good moves in the match from counter attacks with Manvir Singh in the thick of things on both occasions.</p>.<p>India captain Sunil Chhetri, who returned to the team after recovering from Covid-19 infection, was replaced by Udanta Singh at the resumption of second half.</p>.<p>A winless India remained in fourth spot in Group E with three points from six matches.</p>.<p>Igor Stimac's men are two points behind Afghanistan (third with five points) who played out a 1-1 draw against Bangladesh earlier in the day.</p>.<p>India play Bangladesh on June 7 in their next match. </p>