{"id":13596,"date":"2026-06-09T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:30:36","slug":"thais-advance-cambodia-needs-a-draw-to-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/thais-advance-cambodia-needs-a-draw-to-qualify\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai&#8217;s advance, Cambodia needs a draw to qualify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Thailand advanced to the semifinals of the ASEAN U19 Boys\u2019 Football Championship after beating Malaysia 3-2 in the final, crucial tie of Group B here at the Sumatera Utara Main Stadium in Deli Serdang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The defeat meant tat Malaysia will also miss out on qualifying to the semi-finals as the best second placed team from the three Groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Vietnam are now likely to qualify from Group B behind Indonesia with a better goal difference. Cambodia play Australia in Group C and the Kingdom needs at least a draw to qualify and pip Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Australia, who had beaten the Philippines 10-0 in their opening game will qualify for the semi-final even if they lose by a six goal difference. Cambodia has never advanced past the group stages in all of their previous 12 appearance in the tournament and the odds for them to make it this time also looks bleak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In the match between Malaysia and Thailand, it was the former, who took the the lead through Amar Imran Uzaini Ashadi in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Pichaiya Kongsri equalised in the 21st minute for Thailand. The Thais took the lead as Pirada Larsawat hit their second in the 42<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Malaysia scored deep in the first half injury time through Arsyad Shamsul Aswadi (45\u2019+3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But the Malaysians conceded a penalty in the 79th minute and Pichaiya stepped up from the spot to give the Thai&#8217;s the win and a semi-final berth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In the meantime, Singapore completed their Group B fixtures with a 4-0 hammering of Brunei Darussalam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The scorers for Singapore were Rae Bal Junwen Peh (42<sup>nd<\/sup> minute), Uchenna Emmanuel Ezlakor (44<sup>th<\/sup>), Andy Reedqy Muhammad Hasyim (50<sup>th<\/sup>) and Muhammad Liska Haaziq Iskandar (64<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand advanced to the semifinals of the ASEAN U19 Boys\u2019 Football Championship after beating Malaysia 3-2 in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13372,"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-13596","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\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1.jpg",800,450,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1.jpg",800,450,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/newsbeat\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ASEAN-Boys-Championship-U-19-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596","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=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13597,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions\/13597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}