On the evening of March 24, Beijing time, international football ushered in a friendly match, and the Malaysian men's football team defeated the Philippine men's football team 2-0, breaking out a small cold. The Philippine team, which has a large area of naturalized players, has once again been beaten back to its original form, following the Southeast Asian Championships.
Neither Malaysia nor the Philippines made it to the Round of 12, so there was no World Cup for this international matchday, and the two teams played a friendly match.
Just three minutes into the opening, Akhyar Rashid scored a goal to help Malaysia make a fantastic start 1-0. In the 24th minute, Akhyar Rashid scored twice to help Malaysia extend the score 2-0. The Philippine team fought back frantically, helplessly unable to do so, and finally lost 0-2.
According to the statistics of the whole game, the Philippine team only has a 39% possession rate, and the shot is 5-16 behind the Malaysian team, creating few threatening attacks, and it is not unjustly defeated.
In the latest EDITION OF FIFA World Rankings, the Philippines ranked 126th and Malaysia ranked 154th, so the Philippines lost a small upset.
The world ranking is higher than that of Malaysia, which is related to the fact that the Philippine team has a number of naturalized players. In recent years, the Philippine team has large-scale naturalized players, the lineup is almost no pure local players, once in the top 40 stage of the home 0-0 draw with the Chinese men's football team, and finally missed the round of 12.
At last year's Southeast Asian Championships, the Philippines lost to Singapore and now to Malaysia, and the naturalized mercenaries have once again become a joke, reflecting that the naturalization of the Philippine team pays attention to quantity, not quality.