PH team rips Timor-Leste in SEAG football opener – Manila Bulletin

The nationwide U-23 group rolled previous Timor-Leste, 4-0, Friday, Could 6 for a profitable begin to its marketing campaign within the males’s soccer competitions of the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games in Vietnam.

Christian Rontini scored the opener early within the match earlier than Dennis Chung, Jovin Bedic and Oskari Kekkonen added three within the second half to provide the Azkals U-23 the complete three factors on the Viet Tri Stadium in Phu Tho.

Coach Norman Fegidero’s squad, nonetheless, faces an uphill process going ahead with matches in opposition to host and defending champion Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar.

The Philippines performs Vietnam, which gained the gold within the 2019 version on the Rizal Memorial Stadium, on Sunday on the identical venue.

Rontini’s header off Stephan Schrock’s free kick 10 minutes after kick off put the Philippines on board earlier than carrying the lead into halftime.

It took till the 56th earlier than the Azkals U-23 prolonged their lead as Chung scored off Schrock’s help that got here after dispossessing a Timor-Leste opponent.

Bedic, who joins Schrock because the group’s overage participant, made it 3-0 within the 77th beating two defenders after receiving a move by Lance Ocampo.

The ultimate aim got here within the 81st as Kekkonen fired a shot close to the sting of the field following a brief move by Oliver Bias.