JAKARTA - Arema FC coach, Ze Gomes, did not hesitate to praise the opposing players when his team visited Persija Jakarta headquarters in the 26th week of Liga 1 2024/2025. He gave his attention to the creation of a goal for the Kemayoran Tigers which was made by Rizky Ridho from the middle of the field.
Arema visited Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi, on Sunday, March 9, 2025, WIB night. In that match, Singo Edan closed the victory with a final score of 3-1. However, before that, Persija Jakarta opened the scoring in the 62nd minute.
The Kemayoran Tigers' deadlock came after Rizky Ridho carried out an execution from the middle of the field which made the ball fly without a hitch into Lucas Frigeri's goal.
The beautiful goal became a breath of fresh air for Persija who were forced to appear with nine players after Maciej Gajos and Gustavo Almeida's red cards.
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After the match, Gomez participated in discussing the goal made by Ridho. He said, the goal created by the Indonesian national team player was very beautiful.
"I congratulate Persija (Rizky Ridho), the goal was very good," said Ze Gomes after the match.
Despite giving praise to the performance of the opposing players, Ze Gomez also admitted that this beautiful goal that opened Persija's advantage actually made Singo Edan's mentality increase.
"The goal woke Arema. From there we were finally able to reply and win," he said.
Evidently after the goal, Arema then scored three goals through Pablo De Oliveira in the (65') minute, Dalberto (67'), and Muhammad Ferarri's own goal in the 73rd minute, to give Persija's first home defeat.
This victory ended Arema's last two matches which ended negatively because they did not produce victory.
The three points at the Kemayoran Tiger headquarters made Arema move up to seventh with 39 points, while Persija stuck in fourth place with 43 points and 11 points adrift of Persib at the top of the standings.
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