U17 Indonesia could not get through the narrow door, sadly being eliminated early at the 2025 World Cup

TPO - The miracle did not happen to U17 Indonesia. In the final round of the group stage, their direct opponents defended their position in the Top 8 best third-placed teams, thereby winning tickets to the 2025 World Cup group stage. This meant that the Southeast Asian representative had to return home early.

The dream of passing the group stage has ended for Indonesia

At the 2025 U17 World Cup, there are 12 groups, each group will play a round robin to select the top 2 teams to advance (total 24 teams). The opportunity will still be for the 3rd ranked teams. Accordingly, 8 out of 12 3rd ranked teams with the best results will enter the next round. The knockout round of the World Cup will start from the 1/16 stage with a total of 32 teams.

Before entering the final round, U17 Indonesia had completed 3 group stage matches with 3 points, goal difference of -5. This team ranked 10th on the list of 3rd ranked teams. There are a few teams that have not completed the final round of matches, namely Paraguay, Burkina Faso and Saudi Arabia. Indonesia will only be able to continue if at least 2 of these 3 teams lose with a difference of 6 goals or more. At that time, the goal difference of Paraguay/Burkina Faso/Saudi Arabia will be lower than Indonesia, creating an opportunity for the Southeast Asian representative to rise to the 8 third ranked teams with tickets to continue.

Although this is an extremely narrow door for the Southeast Asian representative, with the nature of a U17 level match, anything can happen. Since the beginning of the tournament, matches with more than 6 goals have appeared more than once, especially one match with a score of 16-0.

However, there was no miracle last night for Indonesia. The first opponent they expected to lose 0-6 was Paraguay, but they drew with the Republic of Ireland to secure a place in the next round. Meanwhile, Burkina Faso even dominated and won against Tajikistan.

The last team in Indonesia's "sights" was Saudi Arabia, who lost, but this team lost easily to Mali. In the end , Indonesia could not get a ticket to continue. For the second time in a row, they stopped at the U17 World Cup right from the group stage.

However, this time, U17 Indonesia can still hold their heads high as they have won their first match (2-1 against Honduras). This is also the first Southeast Asian team to win a match in the U17 World Cup so far.

Source: https://tienphong.vn/u17-indonesia-khong-the-lach-qua-khe-cua-hep-ngam-ngui-bi-loai-som-o-world-cup-2025-post1795435.tpo