bhubaneswar on a high after their convincing win over mongolia india will look to seal a final berth when they face vanuatu in the fournation intercontinental cup football tournament on mondaythe hosts blanked mongolia 20 in their tournament opener on friday while vanuatu went down 13 to lebanonso as things stand the blue tigers will seal their final berth if they win against the team from oceanialebanon are the other team that is in the hunt for a final berth as they face mongolia in the earlier kickoff at the kalinga stadiumagainst mongolia india sealed victory in the opening quarter itself with quickfire goals from sahal abdul samad and lallianzuala chhangte to bag their sixth straight win on home soili was most impressed with the players intention of adding to the game weve been practising during the training sessions india head coach igor stimac saidthe visiting teams have found it tough to deal with bhubaneswars hot and humid conditionsthe weather does make a lot of impact on the pitch but we need to be honest that we have an advantage in that sense because weve already trained here for more than three weeks stimac saidwith what we saw in the vanuatulebanon match a few players went off injured in the first half so its clear that it will be difficult for them to cope in such conditions added the croatianvanuatu mostly have local players in their squad except for two forwards azariah soromon and alex saniel who play for suva fc fiji and captain brian kaltack who turns out for central coast mariners in aleaguepart of the melanesian subregion of oceania vanuatu is an island nation with a population of just over three lakhs football is the most popular sport in the country and their best finish in the ofc nations cup has been fourth on three occasionsin june last year vanuatu travelled to qatar for their world cup qualifiers as the pandemic regulations didnt permit ofc to host matches in oceaniaunfortunately for the pacific islanders the trip proved futile as a covid19 outbreak in their squad meant that they had to withdraw before their first gamevanuatu took part in a trination friendly tournament in march this year beating fiji 21 before losing 02 to solomon islands to finish secondwhile vanuatu have played more international matches than mongolia the vast majority have come against pacific nationswhile the senior mens team is set to face vanuatu for the first time the india u18 side has previously toured vanuatu in 2019 beating the hosts 10 en route to winning the ofc youth development tournament in port vilafrom the current blue tigers squad leftback akash mishra was the only one who travelled to the southern pacific nation with that batchsharing his thoughts on the possible challenge posed by the 164ranked vanuatu side stimac said we took everything about vanuatu from the game they played against lebanon its obvious that they are a physical side they have their strengths and weaknesses so