Filipinas take SEA Video games flop as lesson realized whereas good issues they will construct on for World Cup stint

The Filipinas will take coronary heart in a number of the positives from the SEA Video games, together with a second straight win over regional powerhouse Vietnam. —PFF PHOTO

The Filipinas refused to be discouraged by their early exit within the thirty second Cambodia Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games and would relatively take a look at silver linings that may very well be helpful heading into the homestretch of preparations for the Fifa (Worldwide Federation of Affiliation Soccer) Ladies’s World Cup.

“They are saying bilog ang bola (the ball is spherical),” defender Hali Lengthy mentioned after the Filipinas unveiled their Adidas-designed World Cup kits on Tuesday in Bonifacio World Metropolis, Taguig Metropolis.

“It actually exhibits that we have now much more growing to do. We now have much more of maturity that we want,” she continued. “I imply, we simply wish to be higher every recreation.”

Hopes of enhancing its bronze medal end in final 12 months’s version in Hanoi, Vietnam, had been dashed after the Filipinas positioned third in Group A behind eventual champion Vietnam and shedding finalist Myanmar.

A loss to Myanmar on a late penalty to open the match and a last-gasp winner by Sarina Bolden to defeat lowly Malaysia finally put coach Alen Stajcic at a drawback.

The Filipinas closed out the marketing campaign with a 2-1 win over Vietnam that put the 2 groups and Myanmar on degree phrases at six factors apiece, however had been eradicated as a consequence of an inferior objective distinction.

“It wasn’t the consequence that we needed,” mentioned Olivia McDaniel. “We needed to do higher than bronze from final 12 months.

“However each second is a studying curve and a studying course of and I feel we’ve realized rather a lot from this match.

“We’re gonna take a while to replicate, and a few good issues got here to it as effectively,” added the workforce’s high goalkeeper.

AFF semifinals

The nice issues McDaniel talked about was the Vietnam recreation, a battle of two groups that certified for the World Cup. The Filipinas took the lead twice, together with Lengthy’s successful objective within the 83rd minute.

It was the second straight time the Philippines gained in opposition to Vietnam, having overwhelmed the latter within the semifinals of final 12 months’s Asean Soccer Federation Ladies’s Championship in Manila.

“Beating Vietnam two instances in a row is a good deal after having a historical past of not taking part in effectively in opposition to them,” mentioned McDaniel. “I feel that may give us a lift going into what’s subsequent for us since they’re a World Cup workforce as effectively. So I feel that may increase the morale for us.”

Staff supervisor Jefferson Cheng mentioned the Filipinas will seemingly reconvene subsequent month with a camp both in Australia or New Zealand for the ultimate phases of preparation for girls’s soccer’s greatest showpiece.

They’ll hope to make use of the camp to scrub up on the issues that contributed to the final word lead to Cambodia and make up for it when the Filipinas face crack opponents in New Zealand.

“We take [the SEA Games outcome] for what it’s. It’s a studying alternative and it’s a rising expertise,” mentioned Lengthy. “It’s one other studying second we preserve with us going into the World Cup preparation.”

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