FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifier Third Round : Saudi Arabia vs Indonesia
My national team Indonesia will face difficult opponent team the opening third round qualifier match against Saudi Arabia, they have been regulars at the World Cup in the last two consecutive editions, becoming Asian representatives who played in the World Cup in both the 2018 edition and also the 2022 edition in Qatar.
Indonesia team have bad capital for the first third round match after two defender Jordi Amat and Justin Hubner have absent due injury and yellow card accumulation, but we have top defender who played for Venezia Jay Idzes playing full 90 minutes last match in Serie A against Torino.
Actually I am not optimistic with Saudi Arabia as top opponent team in Asia and get regular participants every World Cup edition but looking Indonesian performance get increasing since second round its not difficult being draw Saudi Arabia and secure first away points before facing Australia on second third round match on our home.
Give your prediction will Indonesia team get first three points, being draw or defeat by Saudi Arabia.
The game ended in a draw
Saudi Arabia dominated the game but only managed to score one goal. The funny thing is that Saudi Arabia has invested a lot of money in signing foreign players so that their league becomes very popular and strong and the foreign players are always the center of attention in the league while the local players are anonymous, no one talks about them. Now looking at the national team, they played and no one remembers any name of the player who is in the national league. We can see that the fact that they are making the league strong using the model they have chosen is not making the national team strong.
In its first match for the third round of the World Cup qualifying round, Indonesia played away against Saudi Arabia, this was match that really looked quite fierce.
In this match, Indonesia was really confident that they could play well and match Saudi Arabia game, we saw that Saudi Arabia was far superior in dominating the game and really put full pressure on Indonesia, but in the end they could only end the match in draw.
Indonesia got 1 goal advantage first and the match went according to expectations where each team was able to show very competitive game until Saudi Arabia was able to score goal that made the result 1 - 1.
If Indonesia can improve the quality of its performance, then it is very likely that the second meeting later against Saudi Arabia can produce winning result.