JABAR EKSPRES – The U-22 Indonesian national team won 3-0 against the Philippines at the 2023 SEA Games, a start to win a gold medal.
The Garuda Muda Indonesia team managed to win the first match with a score of 3-0 against the Philippines, Saturday (29/4), at the Phnom Penh National Stadium, Cambodia.
The success of the scoring of three goals in a row from the Indonesian team which started from the third minute of the match by Marselino Ferdinan. With follow-up goals from Irfan Jauhari and Fajar Fathur Rahman before the long whistle sounded.
The first opportunity to score came from Witan Sulaeman’s shot from outside the penalty box. However, Philippines goalkeeper Quincy Kammeraad was able to block the kick.
After the first kick, Indonesia began to find it difficult to control the field. Even though the presence of the ball is dominated by the Indonesian national team, it is still unable to create clean opportunities.
More and more Filipino players occupying the penalty box, Ramadhan and Ananda Raehan tried to get around the situation by shooting from outside the penalty box. Unfortunately, the two shots still missed and were blocked by Quincy.
Next, Rio gave the bait to Ramadhan, which he accepted. However, his header still missed. Jeam Kelly Sroyer did the same, and Ramadhan still couldn’t get a good kick.
Sroyer also took over the opportunities that existed by kicking off the bait that Rio gave. However, the ball bounced over the crossbar.
When the Philippine team had launched a counterattack against the Indonesian team, luckily Emando Ari moved quickly to throw the ball far from the goal.
In the 46th minute, Rio returned to his aggression on the right and sent the ball to Marselino. Marcelino also fired a kick until the ball sank into the right corner of the Philippines goal.
