The U23 Hong Kong National Team Stay Alert of Febri Hariyadi, Beto Goncalves, and Lilipaly

DBasia.news – The U23 Hong Kong national team will play against the U23 Indonesia national team in the last match of football 2018 Asian Games at Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi, Monday (20/8). This match will be the decisive one to qualify for the round of 16.

Currently, the U23 Hong Kong national team are the runner-up of the temporary standing of Group A, with 7 points from 3 matches. The U23 Hong Kong are one point ahead of the U23 national team in the third place. While U23 Palestine are on the top of standing with 8 points from 4 matches. The U23 Palestine ensured the ticket to the round of 16.

 

Febri Hariyadi

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If either one of Hong Kong or Indonesia lose, both have to wait to be the best three in order to pass the round of 16.

Ahead of the match, the U23 Hong Kong national team coach, Kenneth Kwok Kar-Lok said the preparation went well. There are some U23 national team need to be anticipated.

“We stay alert to Indonesian players number 13 (Febri Hariyadi), number 9 (Beto Goncalves) as the naturalization player from Brasil, and number 10 (Stefano Lilipaly), the dangerous one. We have to anticipate all Indonesian players,” he said during the training session at Field B Senayan, Jakarta, Sunday (19/8).

 

Beto Goncalves

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“Today it went as expected during the training session. We are ready for the match against Indonesia. I believe our team will give the best performance to be the champion or runner-up of the group.”

However, Kwok Kar-Lok faces a problem. One of his players got injured and absent during the match against U23 Indonesia national team.

“We have one more absent player. He is Fernando (Recio Comi). He got injured.”