Malaysia’s 1st win after defeating Timor Leste in SEA Games

We will have to see more on the Malaysian side ahead in the Sea Games against their upcoming opponents. Take a look at our latest Malaysia SEA Games football news on the results of Timor Leste versus Malaysia faceoff journey. For the first time, Malaysian national team recorded their first victory in men’s football in SEA Games 2019 following the defeat of Timor Leste in 4 – 0 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines. With Myanmar secured a spot within the semi-final from Group A following the 2 – 1 victory against Cambodia in the other game of the day. Malaysian side will now face the Cambodian national team and hosts the Philippines for the last four slot in the group on the final game day. Manager Ong Kim Swee’s team, are trying to get their 1st win in the Southeast Asian Games, started the game on the offensive and the Timor Leste’s defense mechanism proved to be easy to work hard with for Malaysia. Within five minutes in the game, they were awarded for their offensive intent with own goal from forward Filomeno Junior da Costa who work hard to pull the danger within the box, however, turn out lifting the ball over his own goalkeeper and into the net.

Malaysia Football Team is one of Asean squads in Asian Under-19 Finals

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The send out for the 2020 Asian Under-19 football Championship finals has been settled, and it will showcase the documentation number of Southeast Asian regions in action since 2008. In the upcoming year we will see Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Laos will be appearing for the Asean countries. Unfortunately for Thailand team they will miss out for the 1st time in five editions, they are 3rd place within their group. The 1st placer is Malaysia, followed by Cambodia and Thailand. The tournament will be set on staged in Uzbekistan on October 14 to 31, 2020, the send out of Asian Under-19 was lastly completed by Iraq who take the final spot in the competition following their victory in Group A last Saturday. Iraq obtained a 3 – 3 stalemate with Oman at the Al-Seeb stadium and it was only sufficient to force them ahead of Kuwait on the goal difference to amongst the other group winners which includes Qatar, Tajikistan, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia. The rankings of the 2nd placer squads include Laos, Vietnam, Yemen, hosts Uzbekistan and Cambodia within the top five to advance to the finals while Saudi Arabia side are the reigning champions. For the Malaysian side record, they didn’t win the Asian Under-19 Championship, however, their current best outcomes are three runners up completed in 1959, 1960 and 1968. 

Malaysian football team must beat Timor Leste to qualify in Semi-Finals