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Football: Philippines rallies to beat Nepal at 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualifiers

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="The Philippine women" s="" football="" team="" celebrates="" after="" scoring="" against="" Nepal="" in="" their="" AFC="" Asian="" Cup="" qualifier.="" Photo="" courtesy="" of="" the="" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/09/19/phteam.jpg"/><figcaption>The Philippine women&#x27;s football team celebrates after scoring against Nepal in their AFC Women&#x27;s Asian Cup qualifier. <em>Photo courtesy of the AFC</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The Philippines national football team blitzed past Nepal late in their match for a 2-1 stunner at the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualifiers Saturday at JAR Stadium in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.</p><p>The squad had to play catch up against the Nepalese side after <br/>Bimala Chaudhary drew first blood in the ninth minute.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/07/22/20/malditas-welcome-fifa-funding-hope-part-of-it-goes-to-improving-ph-womens-football">Malditas welcome FIFA funding, hope part of it goes to improving PH women’s football</a></li></ul><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">WHAT. A. COMEBACK!!!!!!!!!!<br/><br/>FULL-TIME: Nepal🇳🇵1 - 2 🇵🇭Philippines<br/><br/>⚽️89&#x27; Tahnai Annis<br/>⚽️90+2&#x27; Camille Wilson<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PFF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PFF</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PHIWNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PHIWNT</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WAC2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WAC2022</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RememberTheGoal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RememberTheGoal</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LabanFilipinas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LabanFilipinas</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ParaSaBayan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ParaSaBayan</a> <a href="https://t.co/RecfWnPNPF">pic.twitter.com/RecfWnPNPF</a></p>— The Philippine Football Federation (@philfootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/philfootball/status/1439196803396771841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2021</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Fortunately, Tahnai Annis struck for the Philippines in the 89th minute, before fellow midfielder Camille Wilson followed that with another goal in injury time.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/06/01/21/football-2-pinays-to-play-in-japans-pro-league">Football: 2 Pinays to play in Japan&#x27;s pro league</a></li></ul><p>The Philippines must beat Hong Kong on Friday to secure a berth in the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup in India.</p><div><strong>FROM THE ARCHIVES</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1667578" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

Midfielders Tahnai Annis and Camille Wilson keyed the Philippines' comeback victory over Nepal on Saturday. 