Terengganu FC missed 3 points in the last minute after tied with Negeri Sembilan FC with a score of 1-1 in the Liga Super Malaysia 2023 at Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak.
Negeri Sembilan made first got a golden opportunity to shoot a penalty after Filemon Standly’s kick was hit by the hand of the central defender, Shahrul Nizam in the fifth minute.
However, the shot taken by the imported defense, Herold Goulon, a minute later, failed to penetrate the host’s goal after winning the goal keeper, Mohd Suhaimi Husin, who lay down to the right of the goal.
Throughout the first half, the resistance was dominated by Terengganu who made a lot of moves to hunt for the first goal with Negeri Sembilan surviving more.
However, Terengganu, which put two imported players, Ivan Mamut and Sony Norde, to lead the attack engines failed to translate the network even though they had the opportunity to do so.
The best opportunity for Tomislav Steinbruckner’s squad to break the deadlock came in the 25th minute through the long run of the new player, Nurillo Tukhtasinov, who was just a little shy to the right of the visitors’ goal.
Likewise, the captain’s swift breakthrough, Habib Haroon, in the 41st minute, was successfully pushed out by the goalkeeper, Sikh Izhan, while simultaneously watching both teams head to the delivery room in the first half of the first period with a 0-0
Realizing that he needed a network after drawing the last two matches, entering the second half of the season, Steinbruckner brought in two new players, Nik Sharif and Engku Muhammad Nur Shakir Engku Yacob to replace Nor Hakim Hassan and Omid Nazari, but still failed to find a touch of the net.
Finally, the goal the hosts were looking for came in the 66th minute after Norde’s header into the penalty box was headed by Ivan Mamut for Terengganu to lead 1-0.
In the 78th minute, Ivan Mamut had the chance to add to both his personal and squad’s goals, but the tall, slender player failed to beat the keeper despite going head-to-head.
When the match was seen to have ended in victory for TFC, Herold Goulon appeared destructive when he scored a 1-1 equalizer through Mahali Jasuli’s header in the 89th minute to make amends for failing to convert a penalty kick early in the game.
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