Manchester United Fan In Malaysia

After winning a gold medal in previous SEA Games, Malaysia team prove that they really in a right track to bring back the glory of Malaysian football after defeated Yemen at Bukit Jalil Stadium last night.

Final result;

MALAYSIA 1 YEMEN 0
( First half 0-0 )

Badrol Bakhtiar (55)

Baddrol Bakhtiar’s free kick in the 55th minute was enough for Malaysia to notch up their win in their first match in preparation for the Guangzhou Asian Games in November and the Asean Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup in December.

This match A win should count and lifting the world ranking of Malaysia in the FIFA world ranking. Malaysia are at 159th spot while Yemen are 105th.

Malaysia still gave a creditable display, hitting the woodwork twice through Terengganu striker Mohd Ashaari Shamsuddin, making his international return after a two-year absence, and Mohd Zaquan Adha Abdul Razak.

Badrol Bakhtiar and Yemen player

I tried to watch both games last night. Everton vs Manutd in channel 812 and Kelantan vs Kedah in TV1. Both team were visitors. However, it’s league match for United and FA Cup match for Kedah.

Its hurt to see Manutd lost. We always got good result against Everton since 1995.  After leading with Berbatov’s goal, I think that Manutd will easily cruise for the rest of the match. But.. I am totally wrong. Everton level just 3 minutes after that and Rooney miss marks the end of Manutd last night.

Our second-half performance was very poor and I can’t complaint about the final result, 3-1.

However, when I turned to TV1. My mood change. Kelantan dominated but it’s Kedah Hijau Kuning ( Green Yellow ) who advanced to FA Cup quarter final in away goal rule. I never know that FAM already adapted Champions League rule in our FA cup matches. hehehe.

Kedah dumped last year’s finalists Kelantan out of the FA Cup after holding the Red Warriors to a 1-1 draw. Kedah will now take on Premier League side Armed Forces in the two-legged, last-0 eight tie. The Army side had it easy in their 3-0 victory over UiTM Pahang in Arau, Perlis to complete a lopsided 6-0 win on aggregate.

With that result..at least I have something to smile…isshhhhkk..

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.