AFC: Singapore vs Thailand
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Match: Singapore vs Thailand (AFC Final 2nd leg)
Time: 8:00pm
Live: Ch5 and official soccer talk
FINAL WHISTLE:
Singapore 1 (3)
81st Khairul Amri
Thailand 1 (2)
37' P Thonkanya
brackets are the results from 1st leg..
BANGKOK (Feb 3, 2007) - Thailand and Singapore today presented contrasting styles ahead of their second leg final match of the Asean Football Championship to be held at the Supachalasai Stadium here in Bangkok tomorrow.
Singapore won the first leg 2-1 last Wednesday at home in a clash that was marred by controversy over the award of a penalty to Singapore by Malaysian referee C. Ravichandran in the 82nd minute.
The match was tied 1-1 until Mustaphic Fahruddin scored from the spot.
Today, voluble Thailand team manager Thavatchai Sajakul went up to the extent of predicting that the match would go to extra-time with penalty kicks deciding the winner.
Singapore head coach Radojko Avramovic, taciturn in contrast to Thavatchai, declined predictions, saying that if actual matches could be scripted in advance, tomorrowÂ’s may just as well proceed to the penalty kicks stage.
However, both team spokesmen were in agreement that the match would be an intense encounter and the controversy that attended the closing stages of the first leg that saw a 15-minute walkout by the Thai team would be consigned to oblivion.
Thavatchai, in particular, have sort shrift to speculation that the negative aspects of the first leg would spill over into the second leg with the Thai team intent on vengeance and the home crowd keyed up to give the Singaporeans a hostile reception.
“We will give no satisfaction to such speculation,” he assured a local and foreign press contingent that has been expecting a needle match with tempers at trigger’s edge.
“Our team will play fair and the crowd will be hospitable to the visitors,” said the veteran Thai manager (right in pic).
Thailand has won the biennial competition for Asean nations three times while Singapore has won it twice.
There has been no other winner of this competition from the nine other members of Asean since the competition was inaugurated in 1996.
Jimmy Napitupulu of Indonesia has been appointed referee for the match with assistant referees Muhammad Yunus Suaidi of Indonesia and Koung Ly of Cambodia.
The fourth official is Nuon Yin Monarath of Cambodia.
Thavatchai said he did not expect iconic Thailand captain Kiatisuk Senamuang to be fielded but he could not be too certain of it.
Kiatisuk, popularly called “Zico”, was not in the Thai team for the first leg.
Avramovic (left in pic) said the Singapore players knew their Thai counterparts well from having played them recently in the KingÂ’s Cup in Bangkok in late December and from the presence of Thai players in the S-League.
“They are friends,” he said matter-of-factly, dimming speculation that traces of the first leg’s bad temper would burden the players for the second. -
match starting soon....
Indra Sahdan is on the substitute bench.. -
is there any where i can watch the match through internet???
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I dun think so.. But u can see it here..Originally posted by Y_Shun:is there any where i can watch the match through internet???
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need so many threads or not.
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i want watch through internet
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how come Ridwan is taped up like a rugby player?
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Internet ar? here lor..Originally posted by nuttawood1990:i want watch through internet -
Originally posted by FireIce:need so many threads or not.
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offside...
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argh!! offside!!
where got offside??
it was kicked by Thai player!! -
GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dammit.. Singapore had an offside position.. If not, we're 3-1 up against Thai..
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ESPN on TVAnts and PPLive....Originally posted by nuttawood1990:i want watch through internet -
off site, no goal.
wasted seh.
got a feeling sg got a feeling letting them win...
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REFEREE A BIT kayu...i think he kana bribed liao -
no sound on star sports
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Why leh?? U bride the ref??Originally posted by Y_Shun:off site, no goal.
wasted seh.
got a feeling sg got a feeling letting them win...
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REFEREE A BIT kayu...i think he kana bribed liao -
how can they use a f'ucking cambodian to be linesmamn.... sure eat money one....
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But got thing to see on OST..Originally posted by the Bear:no sound on star sports -
keep to existing threads on the match
anyone found to open new threads will be banned immediately -
that one was not offside!
the thai player kicked the ball towards the "offside" players...
the ref know the rules or not? -
Mustafic Fahrudin got a yellow card..
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juz now so many fouls...referee oso neva 'beep'...
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yellow card for fahruddin