Expressing "extreme disappointment" at losing home advantage, Bangladesh coach Jamie Day has implied that his focus is firmly on June's World Cup qualifiers and he wants to use the tri-nation tournament in Nepal as an opportunity for experiment.

The 40-year-old said the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) should have been stronger in forcing Afghanistan to play in Bangladesh and the decision of taking all the games to a centralised venue has made Bangladesh's job much harder.

Bangladesh will have to play their three remaining home games against Afghanistan, India and Oman in Qatar in June this year.

"We are extremely disappointed that we are not playing in Bangladesh. We now lose all home advantage of getting points in World Cup group to qualify for the Asian Cup. That was the target we tried to aim for. That now has become very difficult," Day said after conducting his first training session at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.

The Bangladesh coach explained where he thought AFC went wrong in dealing with the situation regarding their now-postponed March 25 match against Afghanistan in Sylhet.

"Do I think AFC could have done a lot more? Yes I do. I think they haven't been strong enough in their decision and have tried to allow Afghanistan and Bangladesh to come to an agreement which was never going to happen. So, in my opinion, AFC should have been stronger in their approach," Day said, adding that the new scheduling of June matches benefited all the teams in the group except for Bangladesh.

As the chance of hosting Afghanistan was gone, Bangladesh found an opportunity to play competitive matches in the tri-nation tournament, also involving hosts Nepal and Kyrgyzstan Olympic team.

The English coach wants to use this opportunity to fine-tune his new-look squad, without focusing on results. He categorically said that his plan is to test all the players who have been included in the 24-member squad.

"We're not going there to lose. We are going there to win but the focus is not on winning; the focus is on giving everyone a chance," Day said. "Everyone will play there regardless of if we win the first and we have to win the second. We'll still change the team. It is a chance for me to see in training and in a game if they are around international level for June."

Day, who has been in charge of the Bangladesh team for close to three years now, said he would not only experiment with the players but may also alter the style of play the team is used to.

"We want to change our play a little bit. Hope they fit into that. We'll be working on that over the next seven days to try and put it into the games in Nepal," Day said.

The team will leave Dhaka on March 18 and the tournament will be held from March 23 to 29.

Meanwhile, the coach has weighed in on the issue of naturalisation of foreign players to bolster the forward line after a Nigerian player, playing in the domestic circuit for close to a decade, recently acquired Bangladeshi citizenship to become eligible to represent the Red and Greens.

"If he has a Bangladesh passport, then he can play for Bangladesh. No problem," Day said when asked about 31-year-old Eleta Kingsley's chances of representing Bangladesh.

"You can look at it two ways. If we give citizenship to foreign players, [in a] short time, we are going to get better results. But in longer term, it's going to stop the progress of the local players... If we use foreign players, it will improve the squad. But also we need to give the local players the opportunity to play for the national team. So we need to make sure everyone gets the opportunity to do that," the coach opined.