Indonesia is likely to play Vietnam in the semi-finals of the AFF Cup
Having to be a guest to the Philippines on the Rizal Memorial artificial grass field, but Indonesia pressed on to attack from the first minutes with the goal of scoring as many goals as possible. Despite facing fierce resistance from the home side, the away team still made good use of a corner kick in the 21st minute to open the scoring slowly with Sulistyawan's header.
The goal gave Indonesia more excitement, and created a series of opportunities. They specifically lost the advantage in the 43rd minute, Marselino received the ball in the penalty area before neatly doubling the lead.
In the second half, Indonesia still focused on attacking, but the haste of the strikers made the shots inaccurate.
In the 68th minute, in the match at the same time, Cambodia shortened the gap to 1-2 against Thailand, and if the scores of both matches at that time were maintained until the end of time, Indonesia would win the top spot in Group A. However, the way This fragile distinction does not make coach Shin Tae-yong feel secure and constantly urges his students to score more goals. However, when the goal has not been achieved, Indonesia must receive bitter fruit.
In the 78th minute, the Philippines warned the Indonesian defense with a volley within 5m50 of the player who came on as a substitute for Reyes, causing goalkeeper Fadillah to show all his skills to save. Not learning from this warning, Indonesia paid the price within five minutes. Midfielder Stephan Schrock hung the ball from the left to Rasmunssen's beautiful header to shorten the score to 1-2.
In the last minutes of the match, Indonesia still had favorable counterattack situations when the Philippines played a double attack, but the striker handled it awkwardly and failed to eat at the decisive moment. In the first minute of compensation, Indonesia brought the ball to the bottom of the boundary before stretching across the Philippine goal, and then Egy Maulana Vikri missed, missed the opportunity. At the same time, Thailand set the score 3-1 against Cambodia.
Winning 2-1, but the members of the Indonesian team still could not be happy to lose the top of Group A. They have the same 10 points as Thailand, but ranked second because of the poor goal difference (+9 vs +11). ). This result puts Indonesia in the semi-finals and meets the top team of Group B - most likely Vietnam.
The semi-final first leg will take place on the evening of January 6 at home Indonesia, before a rematch in the second leg on January 9.
