Indonesia eliminated from U17 World Cup

After losing to Morocco, Indonesia U17 only has one chance to enter the knockout round - as one of the best third-placed teams. For this to happen, Burkina Faso U17 must draw with South Korea U17, and the match between Mexico U17 and New Zealand U17 must end in a 0-0 draw. At that time, Indonesia U17 will compare the number of cards with Mexico U17.

However, the miracle did not happen, when Mexico defeated New Zealand with a score of 4-0 to rise to 2nd place in Group F with 4 points, and pushed Venezuela down to 3rd place. At this time, in the ranking of 3rd place teams, Indonesia is the team with the worst performance with 2 points and is officially eliminated, because the 3rd place teams to continue must have 4 points or more.

Indonesia U17 was eliminated early at the World Cup. Photo: Getty Images.

Indonesia becomes the next host nation, after India in 2017, to be eliminated in the group stage. At the tournament six years ago, host India finished bottom of the group with zero points.

Despite being eliminated early, coach Bima Sakti and his team still left their mark with a confident performance in their first participation in the world -class arena. U17 Indonesia played bravely to hold championship candidate Ecuador to a 1-1 draw in the first match, then continued to share points with Panama in the second match. In the decisive match against Morocco, the young players of the archipelago also played bravely and caused many difficulties for their opponents from Africa.

Along with Indonesia, U17 Korea, Poland, Panama, New Caledonia, Canada, Burkina Faso are the teams that had to stop playing early.

In the round of 16, fans will witness exciting matches such as France vs Senegal, England vs Uzbekistan, Ecuador vs Brazil. Asia has 3 representatives in the knockout round including Uzbekistan (vs England), Iran (vs Morocco) and Japan (vs Spain).

The U17 World Cup Round of 16 takes place over three days, November 20, 21 and 22.

Minh Tu

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