- VIVA.co.id/Arianti Widya
Jakarta – The Indonesian National Team made new history at the 2023 Asian Cup by qualifying to the last 16. Before the Garuda team had successfully recorded its participation in this event four times.
This participation record occured in the 1996 (United Arab Emirates), 2000 (Lebanon), 2004 (China) and most recently 2007 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam) editions of the Asian Cup.
During the four times that they have participated in the Asian Cup, Indonesia has not been able to provide a proud achievement considering that Indonesia always loses in the group phase.
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Meanwhile, during this year's participation, Indonesia qualified for the round of 16 with the title of third best in the group stage along with three other teams in groups B, C and E.
Indonesia's qualification occurred after another match in Group F between Kyrgyzstan vs Oman, Thursday last night ended with a draw score of 1-1.
These results meant that Oman failed to overtake Indonesia with only 2 points and Kyrgyzstan with 1 point. This is different from Indonesia, which is bigger, which has 3 points.
On January 28 2024, the Indonesian National Team will compete against the Australian National Team at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium.
This match will be quite challenging for the Indonesian National Team considering that the Australian National Team is undefeated in Group B and is the champion in that group.
