Incredible fighting spirit shown by the Indonesia U-23 national team in the inaugural match of the 2018 Asian Games sports branch. Luis Milla's squad won 4-0 over his opponent Taiwan (China Thaipe) at the Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi City on Sunday night , 12 August 2018.

Garuda's squad winning goal was scored by Stefano Lilipaly in the 67th minute and 76, Alberto Goncalves in the 71st minute, and Muhammad Hargianto in injury time.

Playing in front of his own supporters, Hansamu Yama and his friends immediately played fast since the first minute began. Relying on the speed of winger Febri Haryadi and Irfan Jaya, both often provide beautiful passes to the two Indonesian national team attackers, Beto and Lilipaly.

In the first half of the Taiwan national team defense line is strong enough to penetrate the two mainstay of the Indonesian national team striker. Meanwhile, the Indonesian national team's goal was not safe from the opponent's attack, several times Andritany under the crossbar made a save.

In the second round, the Indonesian national team did not relax the attack. The result, Stefano Lilipaly opened the scoring in the 67th minute. Utilizing Febri Haryadi's pass through a free kick, the Bali United player gore the ball without being driven away by the Taiwan goalkeeper. The score changes to 1-0.

In the 71st minute Alberto Goncalves's turn managed to register his name on the scoreboard. Collaboration with Lilypali after utilizing the breakthrough from Zulfiandi, Lilipaly gave a beautiful bait, the free-standing Beto easily struck the ball into the Taiwan goal. The score changes to 2-0.

Lilipaly again listed his name on the scoreboard in the 76th minute using a pass from Febri Haryadi from the left side of the field, Stefano Lilipaly in action with an overhead kick. The ball slid into Taiwan's goal without being driven away. The score changed to 3-0.

Towards the end of the match, the turn of the substitute, Muhammad Hargianto scored from a long-range strike. The player who came in to replace Evan Dimas in the second round, failed to be driven away by the Taiwan goalkeeper. Until the match is over, the score does not change 0-4 Indonesian National Team wins.

These results led the Indonesian national team to occupy the second position of the 2018 Asian Asian A group games, one point adrift of the Palestinians who collected four points. Meanwhile, Taiwan must go down to fourth place with a collection of one point draw with Palestine in the previous match.

U-23 national team coach Luis Milla asked his foster children to remain humble for this big victory. Because, according to him, today's match is the initial match of the four matches that will be played in the preliminary round in group A football sports

According to him, in this inaugural match actually his foster children were quite mastered the match. Unfortunately, a number of opportunities failed to be converted into goals throughout the first 60 minutes. It was only in the second half that Hansamu Yama and his friends played better, so they could score four goals.

The winning goal for Luis Milla's squad was scored by Stefano Lilipaly in the 67th minute, and 76, Alberto Goncalves in the 71st minute, and Muhammad Hargianto in the 90th minute + 3.

The next match is the elimination of the 2018 Asian Games, Indonesia U-23 National Team will face Palestine on Wednesday night, August 15, 2018.


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