Manchester United Fan In Malaysia

I am not really follow this year SEA Games. I don’t know why..maybe I am just too busy lately. After our young Malaysian started this year SEA Games with record breaking win 11-0 against Timor Leste… I am still not convinced with them especially after losing 1-3 against Vietnam in one sided match. However, these guys capability to shock Thailand in their last match only means that they have pride and want to prove something to all Malaysian.

Pride is something that missing in Malaysian squad. We have quality young players but once they losing their pride by ages..then our football future is  gone!

As Malaysian footballer in international stage, being a loser is nothing to be shame off. They normally started their career as a loser and end their career as big fat loser. Everytime after losing in each match.. they just accept the result and go home. No need to give an excuse to the press because nobody care.

But.. losing to Vietnam is something that change Malaysian team in this year SEA Games. The good thing in that match – THEY FIGHT & SHOW THEIR RAGE after losing the match. Malaysian players already lose that PASSION long time ago but what happen against Vietnam bring the passion back.

Our own newspaper hit them hard for their behavior. They know that if they come back home early… they will get hit even harder. So.. they play hard to win…this is the missing jigsaw that we called PRIDE.

About the semi-final match against Laos…. there are nothing that shock me. Laos is not a good team and not even close to our squad quality. Got a favorable draw and be in the same group with Singapore and Indonesia. Indonesia never have a good U23 squad before and Singapore also only rely on import players for their national squad. For U23 squad….Singapore was nothing!!

2 goals from Baddrol Bakhtiar in 13th minute and 79th minutes and also the third goal by Safiq Rahim in 84th minutes proves Malaysia was too good for them. Another semi-final match that end up Vietnam thrashing Singapore 4-1 show how unbalance the grouping draw.

Although I don’t think that I have time to watch this Thursday final match against Vietnam but I hope they will continue playing with PRIDE and thinking about how sweet a revenge against Vietnam because it is the only way they can come back with GOLD medal after 20 years in waiting.

I don’t know about you. But.. I am not really notice that SEA Games just started with Malaysia vs Timor Leste in the opening match this afternoon.

The things that I know about this week….. Manutd quarter final match up against Tottenham and incoming 2010 World Cup draw this Friday. Pity me…

England seeded for World Cup ahead of France & Portugal is totally unbelievable.

Pots for Friday’s draw: eight groups of four countries to be drawn, each group containing one country from each pot.

Pot 1 (seeds): South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England

Pot 2 (Asia, Oceania and North/Central America): Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, United States, Mexico, Honduras

Pot 3 (Africa and South America): Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay

Pot 4 (Europe): France, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Greece, Serbia, Denmark, Slovakia

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There are still life for for Young Manutd side after Besiktas match. The critics only care about the result but not really care about how Manutd controlled the match in the game against Besiktas. Only luck brings Manutd down in that match!!

However, early today… Darren Gibson prove that he is ready to be The Next Paul Scholes. His marvelous double strike  that actually reminds me to Paul Scholes brings Manutd into League Cup semi final.(buttttt…. its actually more like Lampard rather than Scholes..hehehe).

With Arsenal and Chelsea also in the hunt of semi final spots… this year League Cup will be more meaningful to be won!!

Man United midfielder Darron Gibson struck twice in the first half in a rematch of last season’s final that was won by United in a penalty shootout.

“It was a good team performance following last week. We bounced back and the young lads did well,” Gibson said. “We didn’t go out to try and prove anything. Sometimes you have bad days and today was a good day.”

Anderson was the creator of the 17th-minute opening goal, surging forward before cutting inside to lay the ball into the path of Gibson, whose low shot crept into the corner of the net.

The second came at the end of a flowing move started by Park Ji-sung and continued by Dimitar Berbatov, who picked out Danny Welbeck and played a one-two with Gibson. The midfielder struck high into the net from the edge of the area.

“The movement and working off the ball was good – and a terrific finish,” United manager Alex Ferguson said. “Gibson and Anderson did very well in the middle of the park. We’re two games away from Wembley, that’s good. We’ll enjoy the semifinal and these lads will play again.”

Ferguson’s priorities are the Champions League and Premier League, and so the 67-year-old Scot gave many of his younger players the chance to gain first-team experience.

“We are gaining as a club because they are getting the chance to play in these matches,” Ferguson said. “They are all definitely getting better.”

But Spurs manager Harry Redknapp, whose side is third in the Premier League just behind United, deployed a strong lineup.

“I am very disappointed. You are never going to get a better opportunity than we did tonight,” Redknapp said.