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SUKAN: Biarpun pada awalnya ramai menganggap Malaysia bakal pulang awal dalam saingan Piala Asia Bawah 23 Tahun namun segalanya berubah apabila pasukan itu menewaskan Arab Saudi 1-0.
Pasukan Bawah 22 Tahun Malaysia melakar sejarah tersendiri apabila mara ke saingan suku akhir Piala Asia Bawah 23 Tahun yang kini berlangsung di China.
Skuad Datuk Ong Kim Swee itu mencatat kemenangan 1-0 ke atas Arab Saudi dalam perlawanan terakhir bagi saingan Kumpulan C.
Keputusan itu juga melayakkan pasukan negara bersama Iraq apabila menewaskan Jordan 1-0.
Pada perlawanan di Stadium Kunshan ini, gol tunggal negara hadir menerusi jaringan Danial Amier Norhisham pada minit ke-28.
Sebelum ini, skuad negara mencatat seri 1-1 ke atas Jordan manakala tewas 4-1 pada perlawanan pertama kepada Iraq 10 Januari lalu.
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Senarai pemain:
ARAB SAUDI: Amin Al-Bukhari, Mohammed Al-Baqawi, Abdulelah Al-Amri, Ali Lajami, Hamdan Al-Shamrani, Abdullah Al-Khaibri, Sultan Al-Farhan (Abdulaziz Al-Aryani 60’), Abdullah Al-Joui (Mujahid Al-Mania 83’), Rakan Al-Anaze, Fahad Al-Rashidi, Jaber Asiri.
MALAYSIA: Haziq Nadzli, Dominic Tan, Irfan Zakaria, Adam Nor Azlin, Matthew Davies, Nor Azam Azih (Syamer Kutty Abba 70’), Danial Amier, Syazwan Andik, Akhyar Rashid (Akif Syahiran 83’), Safawi Rasid, R. Kogileswaran (Jafri Firdaus Chew 46’).
Daniel Teglia: Saudi Arabia head coach
"I think all of us saw that Malaysia created very few goal scoring occasions, only one in the game. We were calm in the game but we didn’t take the opportunity to convert the chances into goals. I want to say congratulations to the Malaysia team and wish them the best of luck. What we had to do we didn’t do it exactly and that was convert the chances into goals. In some moments we were nervous and the passing wasn’t good in the game. We didn’t make good use of the time we had."
Ong Kim Swee: Malaysia head coach
It’s a good result, the boys showed courage and determination and that has brought us to the quarter-finals. I don’t want to talk about how we played, because in these situations the result is the most important thing. I’m very satisfied in terms of the result and to get into the quarter-finals. That’s history for us and we have shown we are bunch of players who can play."
SOURCE: AFC
