HANOI: The national Under-23 football squad will return from the 31st SEA Games emptyhanded after losing 4-3 to Indonesia via penalties in the bronze medal playoff at the My Dinh National Stadium today.
The match ended 1-1 after Ronaldo Joybera R Junior and forward Hadi Fayyadh Razak scored for Indonesia and Malaysia respectively.
In the shootout, Indonesia’s goalkeeper Ernando Ari Sutaryadi emerged hero after saving spotkicks taken by Hadi and Luqman Hakim Shamsudin. Indonesia missed one when Asnawi Mangkualam Bahar hit the bar.
This is the second consecutive loss for Brad Maloney’s charges at this edition of the biennial Games after their extra-time semifinal defeat to Vietnam on Thursday.
Defeat means the national squad has failed to pick up a medal at the SEA Games for the second consecutive edition since Ong Kim Swee’s squad took silver at KL 2017.