{"id":27967,"date":"2023-08-13T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=27967"},"modified":"2023-08-13T15:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:58:58","slug":"spaso-inspires-bali-to-dramatic-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/08\/13\/spaso-inspires-bali-to-dramatic-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaso Inspires Bali to Dramatic Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of Indonesia’s representatives in this season’s AFC club competitions go head-to-head on Friday’s Liga 1 Indonesia action, with Bali United hosting PSM Makassar at the Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium. The match itself was a dramatic five-goal thriller, with Bali United recovering from going 2-1 down to edge out the\u00a0Juku Eja\u00a0<\/em>3-2 thanks to an inspired performance by Ilija Spasojevic in the second half.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2019 and 2021 Liga 1 champions Bali United welcome current defending champions PSM to the Dipta knowing that a win would set the\u00a0Serdadu Tridatu\u00a0<\/em>nicely for their AFC Champions League qualifier away at Hong Kong’s Lee Man FC on August 16th.<\/p>\n

However, despite Bali United starting the match off aggressively, it was PSM who managed to drew first blood in the 5th minute. A Yuran Fernandes ball was lapped up by Rizky Eka Pratama, who fired home past Adilson Maringa in the Bali United goal.<\/p>\n

Seven minutes later, the hosts, who intensified their pressure on the PSM defense after conceding the first goal, managed to drew themselves level. Jean Befolo Mbarga managed to beat a well-placed PSM offside trap before finally getting the better of the\u00a0Juku Eja\u00a0<\/em>goalkeeper Reza Arya Pratama in a one-on-one situation.<\/p>\n

PSM were forced to play with 10 men after half an hour, after an awful foul on Novri Setiawan earned Safrudin Tahar a straight red card from the referee.<\/p>\n

Despite this disadvantage it was PSM who managed to nick the lead ten minutes before half-time, courtesy of a sublime free-kick from Yance Sayuri.<\/p>\n

The second half saw PSM being forced to sit back, being a man down clearly preventing the\u00a0Juku Eja\u00a0<\/em>from venturing forward too much with the team prioritizing on defending their slender lead. Bali United capitalized on this as they aggressively tried to find a way into the PSM defense.<\/p>\n

Substitute Spasojevic finally found the breakthrough in the 75th minute, heading an Eber Bessa corner into Reza’s goal to make it 2-2.<\/p>\n

PSM tried to retaliate swiftly through a solo effort from Yakob Sayuri, however former Arema FC goalkeeper Maringa was on-hand to prevent the Indonesia international.<\/p>\n

Spasojevic then struck again in the 85th minute, once again beating Reza with a thumping header, this time off a Muhammad Rahmat cross from the left flank.<\/p>\n

With the lead now Bali United’s, PSM tried their best to spoil the party by scoring a late equalizer, however Maringa was alert to Wiljan Pluim’s injury time effort and performed a huge save as Bali United managed to defend their slender lead into full-time.<\/p>\n

The three points shot Bali United straight into the Liga 1 summit, giving Stefano Cugurra Teco’s men some sense of relief after a rough start to the season. The\u00a0Serdadu Tridatu\u00a0<\/em>will now head out to Hong Kong for their continental commitments, while PSM won’t be returning to South Sulawesi anytime soon. The\u00a0Juku Eja\u00a0<\/em>will travel to Surabaya to take on Persebaya Surabaya on August 18th, before returning to the Dipta for their AFC Cup play-off match on August 23rd, where they will host either Myanmar giants Yangon United or Brunei side DPMM FC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of Indonesia’s representatives in this season’s AFC club competitions go head-to-head on Friday’s Liga 1 Indonesia action, with Bali United hosting PSM Makassar at the Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium. The match itself was a dramatic five-goal thriller, with Bali United recovering from going 2-1 down to edge out the\u00a0Juku Eja\u00a03-2 thanks to an inspired performance by Ilija Spasojevic in the second half. 2019 and 2021 Liga 1 champions Bali United welcome current defending champions PSM to the Dipta knowing that a win would set the\u00a0Serdadu Tridatu\u00a0nicely for their AFC Champions League qualifier away at Hong Kong’s Lee Man FC on August 16th. However, despite Bali United starting the … Continue reading “Spaso Inspires Bali to Dramatic Win”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":25158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[77,91,643,512,1740,530,95,315],"class_list":["post-27967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-southeast-asia","tag-bali-united","tag-indonesia","tag-indonesia-liga-1","tag-liga-1","tag-liga-1-indonesia","tag-psm-makassar","tag-slider","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27968,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967\/revisions\/27968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}