A 2-2 draw was enough for Australia to win Group C as Cambodia sneaked into the semifinals of the ASEAN U19 Boys\u2019 Football Championship following the end of the group stage tonight at the Sumatera Utara Main Stadium in Deli Serdang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the first time since the inception of the championships in 2002 that Cambodia has made it into the semi-finals. Vietnam was expected to clinch the final semi-final berth Group A but the shock draw between Cambodia and five time champions Australia paid put to their chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the semifinals, five-time champions Thailand will take on Cambodia while host Indonesia, the defending champions, will entertain Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It will be the first time in 14 appearance at the championships that Cambodia managed to qualify out of the group stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It took just three minutes for Australia to take the lead through Marcus Edward Neil, as Alexandro Diogo Nunes then doubled the advantage in the 18th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, Cambodia did not give up going into the second half as Sokea Sreng narrowed the gap at the hour mark before Lewis Domenic Marinucci\u2019s own goal in the 82nd<\/sup> minute gifted Cambodia the draw and a place in the knockout stage in two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 2-2 draw was enough for Australia to win Group C as Cambodia sneaked into the semifinals of<\/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-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t