U23 Thailand lost to West Asian representative

The 2024 West Asian U23 Championship is a tournament organized as a friendly tournament, to help teams prepare best before the Asian U23 Finals.

The 2024 West Asian U23 Championship is the 5th tournament in the history of the West Asian U23 finals. The tournament brings together 4 teams from the West Asian region and 4 invited teams participating for the first time. The West Asian U23 Championship is a friendly tournament organized by Saudi Arabia. 2024 is the 5th year this tournament is held. In the previous 4 tournaments, U23 Iran, U23 Jordan, U23 Saudi Arabia and U23 Iraq were the teams that won the championship.

In this year's tournament, Thailand did not play well and had to play the 5th-6th place match against U23 Jordan. U23 Thailand entered the match against U23 Jordan in the U23 West Asia tournament with the inferior rating. This was shown in the early stages of the match when U23 Jordan were the ones who dominated and created 2 dangerous opportunities.

However, in the 14th minute, U23 Thailand unexpectedly opened the score. Kaosat had a beautiful long-range shot to put the Southeast Asian team ahead.

In the 33rd minute, Abu Taha successfully equalized for U23 Jordan with a close-range shot. Just 5 minutes later, it was Alriyalat's turn to dribble past the goalkeeper to score, putting U23 Jordan ahead in the first half.

In the second half, U23 Jordan continued to maintain pressure and scored another goal by Banihani in the 52nd minute. After that, the two teams played a tense game and the final score was 3-1 in favor of U23 Jordan.

The reverse defeat to Jordan also raised doubts about Thailand U23's chances at the AFC U23 Championship finals in April. At this tournament, Thailand U23 is in the same group with Saudi Arabia U23, Iraq U23 and Tajikistan U23. According to experts, this is a difficult group for the Southeast Asian representative./.