TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Persija Jakarta Coach Stefano 'Teco' Cugurra praised the appearance of his foster children when dealing with Persib Bandung, in the postponed match League 1 Indonesia, which was held at PTIK Stadium, South Jakarta, Saturday, June 30. Teco especially highlighted the back line of his team that capable of handling the attack by Persib.
“Persib have players in the front, they are very good and have a quality, but we can do a good marking,” said Teco.
Persib who play with the formation of 4-4-2 is always meet a dead end when building an attack. A duet of foreign strikers Ezechiel Ndouasel and Jonathan Baumann failed to penetrate the defense of Kemayoran Tiger squad guarded by Maman Abdurahman and Jaimerson Xavier.
In the midfield, the Persib creative midfielder Oh In Kyun also often bumped by the guard of Sandi Sute. Persib’s wing attack performed by the two agile attackers Febri Haryadi and Ghozali Siregar also often stopped by Ismed Sofyan and Rezaldi Hehanusa.
The strategy to use the dead ball was stopped when the ball successfully swept through by the defense or cut by the goalkeeper Andritany Ardiyasha. After successfully winning 1-0 in the first round, Teco said to ask his team to concentrate better, so they are not conceded.
"As I said, we have little time for preparation (against Persib). Once practice tactics, but talk much to players, especially to Maman and Sandi Sute, they are accustomed to playing hard and fighting," Persib fight, we can fight " said the Brazilian coach.
Persija won the match through Jaimerson Xavier's first goal in the first half. With this result, Persija immediately crawls to rank 4 standings. They scored 20 points from 12 games. While Persib should go down one rank to position 9 with 18 points.
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