Defending champions Indonesia lived up to their promise with a stunning 3-2 defeat of Australia to top Group B of the AFF Futsal Championship at the Central Stadium in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A dramatic final minute goal from Muhammad Sanjaya sealed the victory for Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both teams had already qualified for the semi-finals yesterday and the statement by Indonesia will augur well for the title aspirations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indonesia will play Vietnam while Australia will take on 16time champions Thailand in the other semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thailand defeated Vietnam 2-0 in the top of the Group clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indonesia took the lead in the ninth minute after Andres Dwi Saputra guiding a pass from Andarias Kareth into goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia upped the tempo and were rewarded for their aggressive attacking game in the 19th<\/sup> minute. The equalizer was well crafted with Jyden Jacon Hard making the finishing touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was touch and go in the second half as both teams attacked with renewed vigor. It was Andres, who put Indonesia back in the lead. He picked up his second in the 33rd<\/sup> minute to put the pressure on their Oceania rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It took the Aussies just three minutes to restore parity with a goal from Wade Matthew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But all the hardwork came undone just as the match seemed to be headed for a draw when Sanjaya clinched the winner in the final minute of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u200bIn another Group B match, Malaysia picked up their first win of the tournament with a consolation 8-4 defeat of minnows Brunei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faaris Amsyar picked up a hattrick for Malaysia with Aidil Zakwan scoring brace. Iqbal Hazim and Amirul Syahmi scored a goal each while Brunei\u2019s Abi Syarillizam conceded a own goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abdul Hazim Boll Hassan picked up two goals for Brunei while Nur Yamin and Ak Muhd Nazirul Mubin scored a goal each for Brunei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the bottom of the table clash in Group A, Timor Leste ended their campaign with a 3-1 win over Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defending champions Indonesia lived up to their promise with a stunning 3-2 defeat of Australia to top Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-11415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-futsal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal.jpg",2000,1240,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal-300x186.jpg",300,186,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal-768x476.jpg",640,397,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal-1024x635.jpg",640,397,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal-1536x952.jpg",1536,952,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal.jpg",2000,1240,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indonesia-futsal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11417,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions\/11417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}