Our footballers have performance issues


The national football team looking dejected after Timor Leste scored an equaliser through Ramon Saro in the World Cup qualifier match at National Stadium in Bukit Jalil on Thursday. - AZHAR ARIF / The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: If there is one glaring weakness in the national team ... it is their ability to play 90 minutes of football. We lack sustaining power.

Dollah Salleh’s men had all the chances to bag three points in their 2018 World Cup qualifier Asian Zone second round Group A campaign against an unheralded Timor Leste side at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil on Thursday.

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