Indonesia U-20 Ends Maurice Revello Tournament 2024 In A Distended Position

The U-20 Indonesian national team at Maurice Revello Tournament 2024 (Instagram/@jensraven9).

JAKARTA - The U-20 Indonesian national team ended their journey on the 2024 Revello Tournament in the most distended ranking alias 10th.

Indra Sjafri's team lost to South Korea U-21 with a score of 1-2 in the race for ninth place at Stade Rene Gimet, Friday, June 14, 2024.

Indonesia U-20 actually performed solidly in the first half. They can force the score to 0-0 until halftime.

It's just that, at the beginning of the second half, Garuda Muda was missed. Baek Ji-ung tore Ikram Algiffari's net when the game had only been running for two minutes.

The player with the number 9 jersey kept South Korea U-21 ahead by scoring his second goal in the 59th minute.

Taegeuk Warriors' advantage through Baek Ji-ung's brace lasted until the 70th minute.

Indonesia U-20's efforts to find the opening goal finally paid off in the 77th minute through Toni Firmansyah.

However, Indra Sjafri's troops had difficulty finding the equalizer goal. The situation was as difficult as when the goalscorer, Toni Firmansyah, got a second yellow card in injury time.

As a result, no more goals were created until the game was over. South Korea U-21 won ninth place with a 2-1 win over Indonesia U-20.

Meanwhile, South Korea U-21 underwent the Maurice Revello Tournament 2024 or known as the Toulon Cup with less slick.

They ended Group A as caretaker by only packing one point from one draw and three defeats.

For three money with Indonesia U-20, Arkhan's brother and colleagues are also in the lowest position of Group B. They couldn't get points after losing to Ukraine four times (0-3), Italy (0-1), Japan (1-4), and Panama (0-4).

In addition, Indonesia U-20 only managed to score two goals and conceded 14 goals throughout the tournament which was attended by a total of 10 participants.

Indonesia U-20 has participated in the Maurice Revello Tournament three times. In the previous two participations, Garuda Muda was caretaker of the group phase without points from three matches in the 2017 edition (there has been no ranking competition) and 10th in the 2022 edition of 12 participants.

Young Garuda lost against Algeria in the ninth place in a 3-4 penalty shootout after a 1-1 normal time. In the 2022 edition, Indonesia U-20 won three points from one win and two defeats and ended the group stage in third place.