Laos have put themselves in the contention to qualify for the semi-finals of the ASEAN Boy\u2019s U17 football championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a scoreless draw against Myanmar in their opening match, Laos edged out the Philippines 4-3 in their second Group C match at the Gelora Joko Samudro in Gresik, Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A late goal from Anousa Silipanya settled the intriguing match between the two sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make it past the group stages Laos will now need to get past favourites Thailand in their final group match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laos, a three-time runners-up in the series, have not gone past the group stages since fourth place finish in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It took the Laotians just one minute to find the net through Phoutphatai Chanthalangsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The early goal jolted the Filipinos, who came back strongly not only to equalize but also take the lead in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joshua Moleje struck the equaliser in the 17th<\/sup> minute before they took the lead through Aaron Long in the 45th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laos replied early into the second half, with Anousith Phadit restoring parity in the 47th<\/sup> minute. Anousith found the net again in the 56th<\/sup> minute to put Laosback ahead at 3-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, Laos conceded a penalty in the 82nd<\/sup> minute that was converted by Aaron. Just as the match seemed to be heading for a draw, Anousa notched up the winner in the 89th<\/sup> minute for Laos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Laos have put themselves in the contention to qualify for the semi-finals of the ASEAN Boy\u2019s U17 football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11553,"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":[63],"class_list":["post-11707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d.webp",2307,1281,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-300x167.webp",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-768x426.webp",640,355,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-1024x569.webp",640,356,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-1536x853.webp",1536,853,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-2048x1137.webp",2048,1137,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d-590x410.webp",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\/asean-u17-boys-championship-2026-promotional-06788d.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707","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=11707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11707\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}