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Malaysia kejutkan Korea Selatan



SKUAD bola sepak kebangsaan membuktikan mereka kini wajar untuk terus digeruni apabila berjaya mengejutkan skuad Olimpik Korea Selatan 1-0 pada aksi persahabatan di Stadium Nasional, Bukit Jalil petang semalam.

Gol kemenangan Malaysia dijaringkan oleh pemain tengah Selangor, Safiq Rahim pada awal separuh masa kedua.

Perlawanan yang diadili pengadil ke Piala Dunia 2010, Subkhiddin Salleh itu bermula dalam keadaan hujan renyai sambil disaksikan 5,000 penonton kedua- dua negara.

Malaysia yang dibarisi pemain B-23 kecuali tiga pemain lebih umur, Sharbinee Allawee Ramli, S. Kunalan dan Norshahrul Idlan Talaha berjaya mengimbangi kekuatan lawan yang dibarisi pemain B-21 pada separuh masa pertama.

Seawal minit keempat, Malaysia sudah menguji gawang Korea Selatan tetapi percubaan Nor- shahrul hasil hantaran Zaquan Adha Radzak dari sebelah kanan sedikit sipi.

Gawang Malaysia cemas seketika pada minit ke-10 apabila tandukan penyerang Korea Sela- tan, Park Hee-seong berpunca daripada sepakan sudut berjaya menggegarkan palang gol ketika Sharbinee sudah tertewas.

Selang dua minit kemudian, Malaysia sekali lagi mengancam, kali ini menerusi pemain sayap kanan, Ahmad Fakri Saarani yang memperdayakan seorang pertahanan Korea Selatan sebe- lum rembatannya tepat ke daka- pan Lee Bum-soo.

Selepas aksi rancak pada awal permainan itu, kedua-dua pasukan sekadar bertukar serangan tanpa sebarang gerakan bahaya untuk menghasilkan gol.

Namun pada minit ke-40, Korea Selatan hampir memecah kebuntuan tetapi sepakan percuma pemain pertahanan, Park Hyung -Jin sekadar menggegar palang.

Sebaik babak kedua bermula, jurulatih kebangsaan, K. Rajago- bal tidak melakukan sebarang pertukaran dan Malaysia hanya memerlukan lima minit untuk mendahului lawan.

SAFIQ (dua dari kanan) menjaringkan gol kemenangan Malaysia pada aksi persahabatan menentang Korea Selatan semalam.

Gol pertama Malaysia diperoleh pada minit ke-50 menerusi rembatan Safiq selepas sepakan percuma yang diambilnya sebelum itu gagal dikeluarkan dari kawasan bahaya oleh pertahanan Korea Selatan.

Korea Selatan yang seakan tersentak dengan jaringan itu mula bangkit mengatur serangan tetapi masih gagal menembusi kekebalan benteng pertaha- nan yang diterajui ketua pasukan, Aidil Zafuan Radzak, Nasriq Baharom, Sabre Mat Abu dan Asraruddin Putra Omar.

Rajagobal melakukan enam pertukaran dengan memasukkan Baddrol Bakhtiar, Khyril Muhymeen Zambri, Muslim Ahmad, K. Gurusamy, Ahmad Shakir Md. Ali dan Azmi Muslim menggantikan Norshahrul, Fakri, Nasriq, Amar Rohidan, S. Kunanlan dan Asraruddin.



Oleh WAN FAKHRUL BAKAR
fakhrul@kosmo.com.my

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