{"id":28630,"date":"2024-07-22T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T03:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=28630"},"modified":"2024-07-22T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T03:21:32","slug":"persija-came-from-behind-to-see-off-madura-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/07\/22\/persija-came-from-behind-to-see-off-madura-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Persija Came From Behind to See Off Madura Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Persija Jakarta overcame going behind in the opening nine minutes to edge out Madura United 2-1 in their 2024 Piala Presiden opener at the Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Madura United took an early lead with a quick goal by Haudi Abdillah in the 9th minute. Former Bali United man Haudi capitalized on the chaos in Persija&#8217;s penalty box following a free kick.<\/p>\n<p>Shocked by Madura United&#8217;s quick goal, Persija tried to recover. The <em>Macan Kemayoran<\/em> played aggressively, putting pressure on the\u00a0<em>Laskar Sapeh Kerrab<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Persija created several chances but couldn&#8217;t find the back of the net. Rizky Ridho&#8217;s free kick in the 34th minute went just wide of Madura United&#8217;s left post.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Pena&#8217;s men&#8217;s efforts paid off in the 42nd minute with a header from Riko Simanjuntak, who was left unmarked by the opposing defenders, which ensures that the first half would end in a 1-1 stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>Persija then continued to ramp up their offensive efforts against Madura United&#8217;s defense during the second half. Madura United responded with strong resistance against their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite Madura United&#8217;s best efforts in defending, Persija managed to turn the tables around in the 66th minute, courtesy of a goal from Gustavo Almeida.<\/p>\n<p>The match itself was indeed closely contested, with both teams displaying strong attacking play and a tight midfield battle that saw Persija pressing tightly and Madura United countering with quick balls.<\/p>\n<p>In injury time, Yuda Editya received a through ball as Madura United chased for an equalizer, but Persija goalkeeper Andritany Ardiyasa was quick to his feet and secured the ball.<\/p>\n<p>No further goals were scored and Persija managed to secure themselves all three points after a hardly-fought contest, kicking-off their Piala Presiden campaign in the best way possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persija Jakarta overcame going behind in the opening nine minutes to edge out Madura United 2-1 in their 2024 Piala Presiden opener at the Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium on Sunday. Madura United took an early lead with a quick goal by Haudi Abdillah in the 9th minute. Former Bali United man Haudi capitalized on the chaos in Persija&#8217;s penalty box following a free kick. Shocked by Madura United&#8217;s quick goal, Persija tried to recover. The Macan Kemayoran played aggressively, putting pressure on the\u00a0Laskar Sapeh Kerrab. Persija created several chances but couldn&#8217;t find the back of the net. Rizky Ridho&#8217;s free kick in the 34th minute went just wide of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/07\/22\/persija-came-from-behind-to-see-off-madura-challenge\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Persija Came From Behind to See Off Madura Challenge&#8221;<\/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":[91,523,901,2616,95,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28630"}],"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=28630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28631,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28630\/revisions\/28631"}],"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=28630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}