Luis Milla Disappointed with the Referee

DBasia.news – The U23 Indonesia national team coach Luis Milla revealed his disappointment to the referee Shaun Robert Evans’ decisions. He said that after the failure of his squad against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at Wibawa Mukti Stadium, Friday (24/8).

In this match, the Garuda squad was left since the penalty given by the Australian referee Shaun Robert Evans to the UAE. Zayed Alameri scored the goal from the white spot at 20′.

The U23 Indonesia national team followed at 52′. Alberto Goncalves responded to the cross passing from Septian David Maulana.

The penalty from Shaun Robert Evans to the UAE made Indonesia left, as Zayed Alameri succeeded to score the goal from the white spot at 65′.

The U23 Indonesia national team scored the goal last minute. Stefano Lilipaly kicked the goal to the UAE at 94′ and made the score became 2-2 with an additional time.

The penalty shootout conducted since the result remained the same. Indonesia got 3-4 defeat in this round so Indonesia got eliminated while the UAE went to the round of 8.

“You can imagine that we are sad and disappointed. I got emotional. The squad are doing their best and they don’t deserve the elimination,” Luis Milla explained.

“The football is cruel. I hope the supporters still proud of the players’ hard work. Once again thank you for coming.”

One thing that made Luis Milla upset was the referee’s decisions to give the second penalty kick.

“The team gave all their life, work hard to win, but it was difficult due to the referee. He gave two penalties, the latter didn’t happen actually. We are the host, but the situation became like this,” Luis Milla continued.