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| Indonesia's Evan Dimas Darmono (6) celebrates scoring his side's first goal with his teammates. Photo credit: SINGSOC |
Singapore were knocked out of the SEA Games football
tournament on Thursday after slumping to a 1-0 loss to Indonesia, who completed
the semi-final lineup.
Midfielder Evan Dimas scored the only goal in the 46th
minute as the country banned by world governing body FIFA last month for
government interference in their football association kept up their bid for a
first soccer gold since 1991.
The under-23 side were only allowed to compete in Singapore as the ban
had come after the tournament had started.
Singapore needed to win the fixture to leapfrog their opponents and finish
second in the pool behind already qualified Myanmar but their plans came
unstuck at the Jalan Besar Stadium.
The hosts slim hopes were all but ended when leftback Ho Wai Loon was
shown a second yellow card in the 65th minute for a mistimed challenge.
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