Malaysia U18 has a chance to retain the trophy they won last year after they beat Indonesia in the knockout stage for the second year running in the AFF U18 Championship. Malaysia had to do it the hard way though, coming from 2-3 down to eventually win 4-3 in extra time.
Brad Maloney's boys took the lead twice in the match through Aiman Afif (19') and Luqman Hakim (54') with Beckham Putra (45') scoring in between for Indonesia. However the opponents stormed back into the match in the second half with quickfire goals from Fajar Rachman (80') and Salman Alfarid (82') to put the pressure back on Malaysia.