Maldives coach Peter Sergt has paid huge respect to Nepal ahead of semifinal match of SAFF championship 2018.

Semifinal match is scheduled on September 12 at 3:45 PM NST.

Maldives coach Peter Sergt said, "Nepal is a very strong team. They have good players. Their characters are good. We respect them.

"We will try to win the match, may be in 90 minutes, 120 or on penalties. We even practiced penalty shoot out today", said Sergt.

When asked for null goal in the competition, coach Sergt answered, "It's not easy to score goals. Let's not talk about past. We are concentrating for tomorrow's match. We want to win the match".