Heartbreak for Harimau Malaya as they lose to Bahrain, no thanks to a late goal

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's hopes of making it out of the group stage are as good as over in the Asian Cup.

A stoppage-time goal broke Harimau Malaya's strong resolve as they lost 0-1 to Bahrain in the second Group E match of the Asian Cup at the Jassim Hamad Stadium on Saturday (Jan 20).

The side led by South Korean Kim Pan-gon produced a defensive masterclass led by Buriram United centreback Dion Cools but it all ended in vain as they continued their winless run in the group.

Dion was in his element as he won 10 duels, made six recoveries and 13 clearances to keep the Middle East side at bay for most of the match.


But Bahraini winger Ali Madan was unstoppable as he broke the solid defense to score the winner in the 96th minute injury time to give the Dilmun Warriors their first win in the group.

While Bahrain celebrated, the Malaysians slumped on the field in sheer disappointment as they had given a better account of themselves but it wasn't enough.

Before the game against Bahrain, Malaysia had played poorly to lose 0-4 to Jordan on Jan 16.

Malaysia will next face tournament favourites South Korea at the Jassim Hamad Stadium on Jan 25.

With two defeats, it's hard for Malaysia to win a spot in the last 16 unless they beat the mighty South Korea by a big margin.

https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/football/2...-to-a-late-goal

wat heartbreak

kek

tbh, this is the only squad i see in the past 20 yrs who know how to hold the ball and have guts to fire shots into opponent goal. last time our players lose ball easily and even shy to shoot into opponent goal

This post has been edited by kcal: Jan 21 2024, 09:10 AM

Bunch of overrated overpaid players who are only good in the local league.

angmoh players become sayur when playing against arab players. should have naturalized more arab players instead of useless angmoh whose feet become jelly when shooting in front of opponent goal

never had any expectation on them. expected result anyway

We had no luck in Football. Dismantle je.

dunno how many billion spent on football oredi just to bring back the false sense of pride and glory of our supermokh era when in reality during supermokh time malaysia oso did not perform well in asian cup and did not play in world cup.

This post has been edited by kcal: Jan 21 2024, 09:32 AM

They really haven’t seen their own performance in mirror. Kek

Overrated attacker players...too much dribble

Team sampah better just focus on sepak takeaway and stop wasting country money further seriously!

Level Asia cup much higher than m leagues

Totally different level

Few players can up level but most still in Malaysia league level

so our quality stop at arab level which got improvement right? last time only ASEAN level

This post has been edited by commonsense: Jan 21 2024, 10:20 AM

It was heart breaking, we are able to compete

If we lose badly, totally outclassed, it won’t hurt so much

No expectation, no disappointment

Improved a lot. Few years back, when I watch games against Arab nations, totally outclassed by them

I still proud of harimau Malaya. Btw vietnam also knockout.

too many naturalisasi bs

Bahrain should be malu can only score one desperado goal in stoppage time

sure kena scolding like fark only by coach

clear bola budak2 main bola ptg2 mmg la bolos

vietnam fire two goals into japan goal.

Play 541….

Confirm lar keep on being in defense mode and once in a blue moon counter attack

They are not used to play those formation before this…

Can clearly see the players early on a bit awkward witht he formation

This one I agree, if not naturalisasi. We won’t qualify at least we won’t lose and still champion in heart

Lol sarcasm cam cibai

KPG kena bashed too much when he used 3-4-3

Now over corrected, play 5-4-1.

But still, it was an OK formation.

I blame Paulo and Natxo for not doing much. 9 players have to carry 2 deadweights.

This post has been edited by askingquestion: Jan 21 2024, 11:13 AM

Dominate SEA first, then baru binciang

Sohai I thought we lost a real tiger name call Bahrain 😂

kan... i bet many comment here didnt even watch the game. almost solid first half with at least 3 4 chances of goal, but over relying on faizal and arif make them tired. malaysia need play maker in midfield to carry the game up. paulo and natso didnt really shine

correct me if i am wrong, (as usual, when i am in K, i feel that i am the SME in everything), but i thought KPG team got a lot of "foreigners" this time. Maybe that is the reason?

aku dah lata, berhentikan guna nama malaysia untuk pergi bersiar-siar kononnya mencari kegemilangan sukan. kau nak bertangding, keluarkan duit poket sendiri, jangan guna duit cukai.

You are the small medium enterprise?

Sembang kencang before play

last game vs korea sure kena punya

not sure if my sarc meter is rosak or wat, but whatever..

subject matter expert

Why heart break? Ppl realy put high hope to msia since day 1 ke? Come on

Even badminton msia strongest sports also ppl dun put high hope ald nowadays....lolol

Its ok, heartbreak also the Malays will continue to support until the next 100 years.

Hari mau

Kek Bahrain
Menang pun malu
1-0 je

Sad, in this case, might not have chance to see son heung min in action tmr

I dont you need to be an expert to tell that.

Anyone with an eye can see that's why we are doing better.

Never ever make it big although endorsed and sponsored.

Got chance la since they need to beat kuching malaya by a rugby score to top group.

I think the betting odds would be 2.5 over for Korea.

All in for this!!!

Harimau... Kek😂

Win few mickey mouse matches, think can go to ASIAN level?

Ooh well....hahahahah

If anybody actually watch the game then u know we play some dogshit level

Is just lucky that Bahrain is also shit.

Both team cant even string passes properly and expecting to win anything kek

tbh, if someone din ask, i oso scratch my head to figure out what is sme

Oh well, back to the Sunday league.

Kito protest depan embassy bahrain hari jumaat akan datang?

Shit vs shit level, that why we hope would could win.

BTW every group have a mix of strong and weak teams.

India group has Syria (rank 90+), Hong Kong has Palestine (rank 90+), China group has TWO team ranked 100+.

Malaysia unlucky, got in a group with South Korea and then two rank 80+ teams.

the thing is, i did know since when? is this something new? or nothing new about this and if it is nothing new, why we didn't not see the impact of "foreign" player improving the national team as good as they are this year.

Subject matter expert, but you don't know about this?

Malaysia in 2015 (not that long ago)





Malaysia during KPG era





Malaysia Fifa ranking



Look at that. That is the highest Malaysia Fifa ranking in almost 20+ years. Malaysia now can beat teams that are higher in ranking like Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Malaysia started playing with naturalization with Brandon Gan in 2016 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Gan

But the naturalization process really speed up with JDT - Alot of the current naturalized players were brought in to play for JDT then later represent Malaysia.

This post has been edited by askingquestion: Jan 21 2024, 05:57 PM

I have been following Hm for maybe 20 years.

These statistics don’t tell the whole truth.

Against top Asian team, usually the game will be over within 45 minutes or max 70 minutes cause by then we would been losing 2 or 3 goals.

The fact that we able to compete against Bahrain for 90 minutes is an achievement.

I blame it on adam adli alone

If we lose 2 to 3 goals is considered ok already.

Last time we lost 0-6 to Palestine and Oman. Palestine, ya know, negara yang selalu kena tindas Israel. Still can beat us 0-6 wtf

Going back further, Malaysia got whooped 1-5 by China and 0-5 Uzbekistan in 2007 Asian cup.

None of these country are considered "top Asian teams".

Anyone who say "no improvement" doesn't follow Malaysian football.

last time.aftwe 2-3 goals up, team will slow down

except UAE who beat us 10

whats wrong with you?i thought it was pretty clear that what i meant by being A K/ will make you an SME for everything is sarcasm.

baru join K ke?

I don't know you personally so I just reply at face value only. There was another guy in the thread that didn't understand you.

People don't have six sense to understand your cryptic message

Tak apa we already use to it

Erm different team dink donk
Dion cools used to play against Manchester United , Mo Salah and many more in Europe
Stuart Wilkins was Southampton youth player
Natxo played for vilareal Zaragoza and Valencia although he played terribly this time
Darren played in national league south , England
Others such as Brendan Gan Matthew Dav , and the rest used to play overseas before coming back to Malaysia

And half of the squad played in AFCCL

thailand vs oman soon

While everyone said we were knocked out from group stage d , even news article

It is not accurate actually

Technically if we put aside Korean as the favorite , if we can trash Korea by a huge huge margin , we can still qualify
By huge I mean 10-0 , possible to qualify on goal difference depending on the rest of the matches which will be played at same time

Yes yes I know it’s Korea but purely calculation wise we can still qualify

Writer or TS in dreamland thinking current pandans can even win. Shame to the real tigers to use their name. Bunch of school kids playing in the real pitch. No discipline or skills but big headed.

kasi pecat semua,
dari paling atas ke paling bawah fam,
kasi pecat semua pemain import,
ambil lokal saja,
sebab tak ada beza import atau lokal,
lebih baik belanja duit itu di sekolah/hospital

chilla all. suppork our asean neighbour in action

the stadiums in qatar all so nice

From what I read Malaysia and Vietnam knocked out because of the head to head rule.

If 2 teams has the same points, who won the in the head to head fight is placed higher.

So if Bahrain and Malaysia has the points but Bahrain won against Malaysia, Bahrain is place higher. Goal difference doesn't matter unless we draw.

Is it ? I thought the group stage table is solely on GD if WDL is the same
Then 4 best 3rd will enter

Was reading the full competition manual by AFC couldn’t find it

I’m very interested to know as well

Edited
I think I found


Regulations Article 7.3):

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;



I think u r right

you must be new in K..

What u talking? It doesnt matter where they played before, most of the JDT players are only good in Malaysia local league. At international level, they are garbage. Thats why i said they are overpaid

our Naturalized angmoh or african or other races players are 3rd grade players... probably some 4th grades in their own country league. To us here probaly they are 1st or 2nd grade good enough for our football standards.. but to their respective leagues in their country they are probably 3rd or 4th grade..thats the diff... imagine 1 day ( dream on) we have naturalise players like ronaldo or kylian mpape, or even mo salah or marcus rashford etc then our football in msia is diff la... not possible cause they wont come here and we cannot afford them also...
so whatever it is the result in Asia cup is expected la.. the quality is diff standards from other countries...

This post has been edited by achong09: Jan 22 2024, 08:32 AM

Your exact reply was
“ Bunch of overrated overpaid players who are only good in the local league.”

No UEFA champions league is not a local league
Try googling a bit
Also Southampton , La Liga , and Australian league are not in Malaysia as well

ppl sent new player team play friendly match with you u win u think u are very strong, improve alot lol......
remember Korean all men go military service, they all are loyal to the country, of we are not at the same group of Korean, we might can go further.

This post has been edited by bereev: Jan 22 2024, 02:47 PM

Salah J

Nothing to heartbreak when they is zero expectation. Only problem is tax payers money still fund these bums.

but hoe come JDT strong can beat japan club and korean club?

LOL..the delusional ppl in here that still think mesia can qualify to R16. Pass the weed bero.....

Damn u r retarded and slow. 10 out of the 11 who started agaisnt bahrain play in the Malaysian Super League.

These ppl are only good playing in MSL. Still cant understand?