{"id":28536,"date":"2024-05-31T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=28536"},"modified":"2024-05-31T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:00:36","slug":"youthful-persija-saw-off-psis-to-set-selangor-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/05\/31\/youthful-persija-saw-off-psis-to-set-selangor-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Youthful Persija Saw Off PSIS to Set Selangor Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Persija Jakarta side stacked with youth managed to pass the challenge of PSIS Semarang in Thursday’s RCTI Premium Sports International Tournament semifinal at the Jakarta International Stadium, with a single Akbar Arjunsyah goal enough to seal the\u00a0Macan Kemayoran<\/em>‘s 1-0 win over the Mahesa Jenar<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With most of their stars absent due to either international duty or being rested after a long Liga 1 Indonesia season, Persija came into the RCTI Premium Sports International Tournament with a squad mostly filled with youngsters. But despite that, they still have experience in the form of first-teamers Cahya Supriyadi, Maman Abdulrahman, Tony Sucipto, Akbar, and Aji Kusuma.<\/p>\n

PSIS also came into the tournament mostly relying on youth, but they also had several foreign players turning out for them on a trial basis, such as former Persita Tangerang and Persiraja Banda Aceh defender Adam Mitter, former PSS Sleman, Persipura Jayapura, Sri Pahang FC, and Sriwijaya FC striker Yehven Bokhashvili, and Finnish-Iranian attacking midfielder Reza Heidari.<\/p>\n

With the support of their faithful Jakmania behind them, it was Persija who took the initiative since kick-off, with the kids repeatedly giving headaches to the PSIS defenders. Occasionally PSIS took the opportunity to counter, but Maman’s experience at the back helped Persija’s defense to stand strong.<\/p>\n

In the end the\u00a0Macan Kemayoran<\/em>‘s perseverance paid off as Akbar managed to find the back of the net in the 22nd minute with a powerful header.<\/p>\n

The two teams then exchanged blow after blow throughout the remainder of the match, though no further goals were scored as Persija held onto their slim lead.<\/p>\n

There were tears in full-time as both Maman and Tony greeted the Jakmania for the final time, with the two veteran players set to leave Persija after the match. 43-year old defender Maman had initially hinted that he would retire after this season, but both him and 38-year old defender Tony has went on to state that they will continue playing even after leaving Persija, possibly for teams in the lower leagues.<\/p>\n

Persija will take on Selangor FC in June 2nd’s final, after PSIS had taken on Sabah FC in the third place play-off on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Persija Jakarta side stacked with youth managed to pass the challenge of PSIS Semarang in Thursday’s RCTI Premium Sports International Tournament semifinal at the Jakarta International Stadium, with a single Akbar Arjunsyah goal enough to seal the\u00a0Macan Kemayoran‘s 1-0 win over the Mahesa Jenar. With most of their stars absent due to either international duty or being rested after a long Liga 1 Indonesia season, Persija came into the RCTI Premium Sports International Tournament with a squad mostly filled with youngsters. But despite that, they still have experience in the form of first-teamers Cahya Supriyadi, Maman Abdulrahman, Tony Sucipto, Akbar, and Aji Kusuma. PSIS also came into the tournament … Continue reading “Youthful Persija Saw Off PSIS to Set Selangor Final”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":25166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[91,901,1563,2863,95,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536"}],"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=28536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28537,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions\/28537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}