while people may rightly look up to Indonesia's perfect record at home, the whole tournament... our record at home so far is not shebby ourelves

while how exactly Indonesia will perform away in this tournament for the first time is still a mystery, Malaysia have been 'battle hardened' playing away. Escaping, barely, but still manage to get out of Gelora Bung Karno and My Dinh alive. We have taken out notes and did our homework.
Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmmar and Malaysia ourselves are all beaten while playing against a full house host. Only Philipines manage to carve out a win in group stage and Malaysia can only draw at My Dinh in the semis..
so Indonesia must not take this factor likely...
Most of the time in tournament that takes a long time, peaking too early also is not too good... Indonesia's flight have been too smooth sailing from the start, but against Thailand and both matches vs the Philipines, they became less and less flambouyant.
Malaysia's drubbing int the first match was a shame, but luckily, thats only a dress rehearsal. This sunday and wednesday matches will be the real deal. We have met our worse and improved on it, but yet to reach our best...
while Indonesia have met their best, they not at all close to know what is their worst.
i think people of Malaysia can feel a little bit optimistic about this final