Defending champion Thailand reach SEA Games semi-final for the third time in a row after beating Myanmar at the Selayang Stadium on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
It was Myanmar who put the pressure on their opponents in the opening proceedings by forcing a corner within the first 60 seconds.<\/p>\n
However, Thailand were unfazed and had a chance to open the scoring in the seventh minute but Maikami Rattanakorn sent his free-kick from the left sailing over the Myanmar crossbar.<\/p>\n
Despite being overwhelmed by the attacking power from Thais, Gerd Zeise\u2019s side still conjured up a counter attack of their own. Their most significant effort came in the 50th<\/sup> minute as Htike Htike Aung forced the Thailand goalkeeper to produce his best to save a free-kick from 30 yards out.<\/p>\n Thailand and Myanmar matched each other for most parts of the match and both had chances to take the lead, but the game remained scoreless.<\/p>\n Attacking efforts from Worawoot Srimaka\u2019s squad was finally paid off when Chenrop took advantage of a defensive miscue by Myanmar to nod home Suriya Singmui\u2019s cross from the left steer his team into yet another SEA Games final.<\/p>\n In the other semi-final, a late goal from Thanabalan Nadarajah earned hosts Malaysia spot in SEA Games final over arch rivals Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defending champion Thailand reach SEA Games semi-final for the third time in a row after beating Myanmar at the Selayang Stadium on Saturday evening. It was Myanmar who put the pressure on their opponents in the opening proceedings by forcing a corner within the first 60 seconds. However, Thailand were unfazed and had a chance to open the scoring in the seventh minute but Maikami Rattanakorn sent his free-kick from the left sailing over the Myanmar crossbar. Despite being overwhelmed by the attacking power from Thais, Gerd Zeise\u2019s side still conjured up a counter attack of their own. Their most significant effort came in the 50th minute as Htike Htike … Continue reading “Late Chenrop goal fires Thailand to SEA Games final”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[107,69,95,68],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-myanmar","tag-sea-games","tag-slider","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}