2019 SEA Games

The Philippines "owe a dinner" to Myanmar.

Myanmar has done the job for the Philippines with its 2-1 win over Cambodia.

From now on, the Philippines will have to worry about scoring a considerable quantity of goals (and more than 4) to Timor Leste without any chance, and to keep the blank sheet at its own goal.

We watched in Biñan an amusing game, playing at high intensity and with forced and unforced mistakes that defined the battle. The goalkeepers shared the mistakes equally.

WE Coaches should be flexible with our approaches according to the circumstances of the game, unless we have a team of players so extraordinary that with an unique style in attack and defense can overcome any opponent.

Myanmar, being loyal to his style, applied a high pressure on the Cambodians and when it regained the possession of the ball, furious launching of counterattacks playing one touch. Cambodia tried to play the ball in a prolix way from the back all the time, something that under the coordinated pressure of Myanmar seemed suicide. Losing balls in one's own field could have sentenced the final result even earlier in the game.

Myanmar has substitutes that can even raise the performance of the first eleven, something Cambodia lacks; also from the benches the games are won.

Moral: in the tactical understanding of the game that players own and which allow the team's style to be adapted to what a game requires, it is based the Myanmar's success, already qualified for the semifinals.