World Cup 2014 Qualifying 2nd round Asia: Malaysia (4) - (6) Singaberpura-pura

Aku mula stres pagi khamis, 28.07.11 tu. Satu, sebab aku dah lmbt nak g kije. Dua, masa ni la myk abis. Dah satu hal nak g isik myk plak. Tiga, bole ke Malaysia menang?

37 tahun adalah jangkamasa yg lama. Umur aku pon jauh lagi nak jejak angka tu. Tp sad but true... Itulah jangkamasanya Malaysia tak pernah lepas 2nd round qualifying piala dunia. Even di masa kegemilangan Arwah Dato Mokhtar Dahari juga gagal layak ke pusingan seterusnya.

After bersusah payah utk meloloskan diri dari Taiwan dgn bantuan away goal dan juga friendly match yg agresif dgn Arsenal & Liverpool, Harimau Malaya sepatutnya bersedia utk bertemu musuh tradisinya iaitu Singapura.

Lets recap the 1st leg in Std Jln. Besar, Spore...


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With a good performance vs. Taiwan &amp; Arsenal masa Apek injured, Sharbinee was entrusted to be the GK. Defence same as AFF Suzuki Cup team. Ada muka baru dlm skuad ni which is Ismail Faruqi bermain as the attacking midfielder yg akan swap position with Safiq Rahim. S. Kunanlan bermain seperti biasa di left wing and as an away team strategy, Ahmad Fakri bermain as a right wing forward. Safee Sali yg baru je pulih dari injured, bermain as a solo striker.

Masa ni Datuk Rajagobal takde byk choice as Norshahrul Idlan &amp; Khairul Fahmi injured lagi. So he put a lot of trust to debutant Ismail Faruqi to show off what he capable of just like when he play for Terengganu in the MSL.

The game ended Spore 5-3 Malaysia. 1st half je Spore 4-1 Malaysia. Gile.... Itu pon, Malaysia lead from the 1st minute! Then, Spore came back strong through their import players. 2 goal from free kick, 1 from a lovely 1-2 by Mustafic with Duric. And before end of the 1st half, Duric again provide the assist for the 4th goal.

1st half tu memang laju nak mampos tempo game. Dah macam tengok game kat World cup or BPL. Itulah kelebihan Spore. The astroturf, the speed of their game &amp; yang paling aku tak gemar.... Their gameplay of falling apart bile diasak player Malaysia. Harimau Malaya terikut dengan tempo Spore menyebabkan kite main takde sistem. Kelam kabut.

2nd half baru nampak Malaysia dapat rentak or adapt to the game. Rajagobal memasukkan Abdul Hadi menggantikan Ismail Faruqi yg ineffective, Amirulhadi menggantikan Ahmad Fakri yang main macam haram. Malaysia mula menyerang dengan baik when suddenly another blow came bile Safiq Rahim dilayangkan straight red card selepas terjahan keras ke atas player Spore. Formasi terpaksa ditukar lagi dengan Amirul terpaksa bermain sebagai central midfield dengan Mahali bertindak sebagai wing back.

Malaysia kemudian berjaya menambah 2 gol dalam masa 2 minit hasil cross dari Mahali dan Kunanlan. Then Spore right back player plak dapat kad merah selepas 2 kad kuning. Disebabkan itu, Shi Jiayi terpaksa turun sebagai right back. Masa nilah Kunanlan baru dapat terrorize the Spore backline. Tp sblm game tamat, Duric berjaya menambah gol ke-5 selepas his turning macam Van Nistelrooy dalam kawasan D Malaysia sebelum meledakkan rembatan.

Game ni Sharbinee memang gampang. 3 dari 5 gol, dia boleh berdiri macam tiang gol tanpa mencuba untuk halang bola dari masuk. Midfield memang tak hidup sebab Safiq out and masa dia main pon, kena mark teruk dengan Harris.

Now to the 2nd leg.....

2 gol bukanlah susah untuk diperolehi jika kita bermain di bukit Jalil. Kita buktikan semasa AFF Suzuki cup final even masa lawan Liverpool, kite berjaya score 3. So 2 gol memang boleh diperolehi. Malaysia yakin dengan skuad bimbingan Datuk Rajagobal. Sebab tu dalam tempoh 2 hari, tiket sebanyak 85,000 habis terjual. Tu tak kira tiket haram lagi.

Expectation was high, aku pon ada di stadium. Everyone believe we can win. Even without kapten Safiq Rahim. Aku plak expected Norshahrul akan turun. Unfortunetely, dia belum baik dari injured. So this is the line up formation:


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Its an attacking 4-4-2 formation. Hadi &amp; Safee Sali taking the front line. Amirul kembali sebagai right midfield. Ismail Faruqi menggantikan tempat Safiq Rahim. Kelegaan bila melihat Aidil Zafuan kembali ke barisan pertahanan namun ianya hanya buat 8 minit pertama sahaja.

Spore dengan kelebihan 2 gol adapting a defensive approach. Eventhough the first Xi is the same macam dalam 1st leg, tapi the way they played are cautiously, counterattack and slowing the tempo. As their coach said after the 1st leg, they are going to tighten the defence and marking our main man. And they did that. Bila Safee dapat bola, 2 pemain Spore akan pressure him. Same goes to Kunanlan. Juma'at &amp; Harris akan press Kunanlan or mark him supaya dia tak dapat bola. That's why Kunanlan tak menjadi masa dalam 1st half.

The game start with Malaysia attacking very well. Tapi bila Spore dapat bola je, mereka akan sama ada melengah2kan permainan ataupon rebah bila diasak pemain Malaysia.

Bagi penyokong Harimau Malaya &amp; peminat neutral, memang mengecewakan bila melihat averagely every 5 minute, player Spore akan rebah. Sama ada diasak atau mereka yang mengasak, mereka akan rebah. Tapi itulah taktik yang mereka pakai and it work really well.

1st half ended goalless. Actually Spore could have the lead by 2 goal if not because of ketangkasan Khairul Fahmi menidakkan serangan Spore. Defence Malaysia played really bad. Worst than the 1st leg in Spore. Qiu Li mempunyai banyak peluang bila Mahali overlap. Ismail Faruqi showed a glimpse of his true talent. Tapi kekadang dia terlalu lama memegang bola.


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For me, other than Khairul Fahmi, Amar Rohidan played really well. He fill the gap left by Safiq dengan hantaran2 jauhnya yang tepat. Tapi dia seorang je mane cukup untuk merencana gerakan bila lawannya adalah Mustafic, Harris &amp; kekadang Shahril 'kapten loser' membantu.

Kapten Safee Sali berjaya score opening goal Malaysia pada minit ke-58 sekaligus menyemarakkan kem Harimau Malaya untuk mencari satu lagi gol bagi melayakkan diri sekaligus mencipta rekod ke pusingan ketiga kelayakan piala dunia.

Unfortunetely, sedang asyik menyerang, Spore berjaya menjaringkan gol bagi mengikat dan mengekalkan 2 gol defisit. Sekaligus menambah kesukaran Harimau Malaya.

Selepas gol Spore, Malaysia nampak buntu. Menyerang secara membabi buta tanpa sebarang rancangan. Ditambah dengan play acting dari player Spore menyebabkan rentak game semakin perlahan dan menyebabkan player Malaysia almost lost their temper (which what Spore want).

The game ended 1-1.

Eventhough tak kalah, tapi kita kalah agregat. Can we blame the players? Of course as a fan, kita nak team kita menang. Sapa nak team dia kalah? But please take note that they are boys not yet men. Average umur diorang ni awal 20. Spore? Duric tu je dah 41 tahun. Most of the Singa celup pon dah season players. So we should give them encouragement rather than salahkan diorang. But of course, the defence need to change.

There should be 1 player to organize or take the lead in the defence. Buat masa ni, Aidil is the man. Tapi since dia selalu injured, kena ada seorang lagi yang kena step up untuk take the lead. Buat masa ni, aku tak nampak sesiapa yang ada ciri2 tu.

Midfield pon kena ada back up or another character if Safiq injured ataupon suspend. Ismail Faruqi boleh fill the gap. Tapi dia still need tine to gel with the team. So siapa lagi yang boleh run the midfield?

Aku nampak Shahrulnizam Mustapa of Perak boleh fill that position. Aku nampak Baddrol Bakhtiar boleh fill that position walaupon dia more towards to attacker role.


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