Malaysia vs East Timor
Malaysia will host East Timor in the first round of the World Cup Asian zone qualifiers on Friday (07/06). Malaysia is more favored but still has to avoid possible surprises.
Both historically and powerfully, Malaysia is still better than East Timor. The performance of the two teams recently also shows that Malaysia is indeed more worthy of being superior than East Timor. In his last match, Malaysia successfully arrested Nepal with a score of 2-0 in a friendly match. While East Timor, a 1-6 defeat to Singapore in the AFC Cup group phase last year was their last game.
Malaysia also excels in Head to head business from East Timor. Malaysia has never lost in the last four counter-East Timor meetings. In that period East Timor succeeded in winning 3 times and East Timor was only able to keep up with Malaysia in 1 match. The draw (1-1) also occurred in 2015, where after the match in succession East Timor lost 1-0 (2015), 3-0 (2016) and 3-0 (2016).
Malaysia deserves more favored. However, East Timor clearly did not want to give up. They will also try to give their best resistance and try to advance to the next round. For this reason, Malaysia should not take lightly on the youngest country in the Southeast Asian region.
Our Prediction: 1
Odds: 2.05