SINGAPORE, Sunday (The Straits Times/ANN): Throughout the ongoing Suzuki Cup, Lions coach Tatsuma Yoshida has been keen to temper expectations and call his team "challengers" or underdogs, and the final Group A match against Thailand on Saturday (Dec 18) provided the reasons.
With semi-final qualification assured for both sides, the War Elephants made wholesale changes and fielded a completely different starting XI from the team that beat the Philippines 2-1 on Tuesday, and still ran out comfortable 2-0 winners in front of 9,514 fans at the National Stadium.
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