Malaysia and Indonesia notched comfortable wins in their respective FIFA ASEAN Cup Division 1 Group A matches yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malaysia cruised to a 3-0 victory over Bangladesh while Indonesia saw off Singapore 2-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malaysia coach Tan Cheng Hoe named three debutants in his starting XI, but it was an established star who put them in control, and then kept them there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It took just 18 minutes for Arif Aiman to make his mark, racing onto a lofted Nooa Laine pass and slotting home through the legs of Bangladesh keeper Mehedi Hasan Srabon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dazzling winger then doubled Malaysia\u2019s lead, being released by Stuart Wilkin and rifling home a second to send Harimau Malaya into the break in a strong position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bergson, a former Brazil youth international making his debut for Malaysia, added a fine third shortly after the restart to put the match all but out of Bangladesh\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The South Asian nation did have a brief sight of goal late on as Hamza Choudhury forced a smart save out of Haziq Nadzli, but in the end Malaysia proved far too strong in the Group A opener in Jakarta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indonesia 2-0 Singapore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It took Indonesia less than a quarter of an hour to make the breakthrough as debutant Luke Vickery burst free down the right and squared the ball for an onrushing Ragnar Oratmangoen to sweep home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thereafter, despite their dominance on the ball and a slew of chances created, Indonesia struggled to find a second, as Ole Romeny and then Ragnar Oratmangoen both failed to hit the target from promising positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Singapore substitute Song Ui-young had a rare sight of goal for Singapore just shy of the hour mark before the visitors went a player down after Safuwan Baharudin was shown red following a VAR review with 20 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the resulting free-kick, Indonesia were awarded a penalty for handball; one dispatched by Romeny to secure maximum points for the hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malaysia and Indonesia notched comfortable wins in their respective FIFA ASEAN Cup Division 1 Group A matches yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asean","category-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\n\t\t