- The Indonesian National Team is now having the upper hand.
Shin Tae-yong's team managed to reach the top 8 of the 2024 Asian Cup. Of course, the success of the Garuda Muda squad is something to be proud of.
The news of the Indonesian National Team's victory was also highlighted by foreign media ESPN.
Based on an article published on the ESPN website, it is said that the Indonesian National Team had to go through a controversial defeat before ensuring that they would qualify for the 2024 U23 Asian Cup Quarter-Finals.
The controversial defeat in question was when the Indonesian U23 National Team surrendered two goals without reply to hosts Qatar.
Yep, the unsatisfactory results became a topic of discussion because many of the referee's decisions were detrimental to the Indonesian U23 National Team.
One of them was Ivar Jenner's second yellow card after contact with an opposing player.
As a result of the yellow card which ended in red, Ivar Jenner had to miss playing for the Indonesian U23 National Team on the second matchday.
Luckily Ivar Jenner's absence was overcome by Shin Tae-yong and he succeeded in beating Australia through Komang Teguh's single goal.
"Indonesia's journey began with a controversial defeat against Qatar."
"And continued with a surprising victory over Australia that was far from pretty," reads the content of the ESPN article.
After that, they discussed the results of the Indonesian U23 National Team's victory over Jordan with a landslide score of 1-4.
The news agency whose domain is in the United Kingdom was amazed by the results of the third matchday obtained by Shin Tae-yong's team.
According to them, the Indonesian U23 National Team performed extraordinary because they actually had enough of a draw with Jordan to qualify for the quarter-finals.
"Even though they are not the favorites, Indonesia is able to perform persistently."
"Even a draw would be enough to get the Indonesian team through."
"But in the end, Indonesia managed to escape with victory over Jordan," continued ESPN's article.
Then, ESPN discussed the targets carried by the Indonesian U23 National Team in their participation in the 2024 U23 Asian Cup.
They believe that the Indonesian U23 National Team still needs to carry out evaluations before realizing their target of qualifying for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
"In the U-23 Asian Cup debut which has become a dream, there are bigger goals that Indonesia wants to achieve."
"There's still a lot of work to be done before they realistically think about that target," claims ESPN.
Finally, they said that the Indonesian U23 National Team had many young talents who played brilliantly.
It is possible that this assessment is reflected in the performance of beating Jordan,
Young talent might lead to Marselino Ferdinan who became the star of the victory thanks to his two goals.
"That's very clear from the way their young talent shines and shines on this big stage," stressed ESPN.
Final standings in Group A of the 2024 U23 Asian Cup
*Description: Team | Number of plays | Win | Draw | Lose | Scored Goals-Conceded | points
1. Qatar | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4-1 | 7 points (passed top 8)
2. Indonesian U23 National Team | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5-3 | 6 points (passed top 8)
3. Australia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0-1 | 2 points
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