This will be a big surprise if Indonesia can win Bahrain on their home. this match will be revenge Indonesia for their defeat 10-0 a while ago. in terms of quality Bahrain not even better than Saudi which I think Indonesia can easily handle it. But again, Indonesia performance is still not good, they will disappoint fans if too much praised, and when I look how the composition the Bahrain squad is look the same as they defeat Indonesia while ago, so Indonesia team must have to be alert, This is not impossible bahrain use the same strategy to do the same thing to defeat Indonesia. I hope the naturalization player are not tired as they play on their club before to pass Indonesia to the next round qualification.
What is different is that the current Indonesian squad is very different from when Bahrain beat Indonesia with a very convincing score at that time. Now Indonesia is strengthened by many players who play in several prestigious leagues in the world, yes, even though they are part of a team that is not considered strong enough, but of course what we see is experience. Bahrain on paper is no better than Saudi Arabia and Australia and when facing both countries Indonesia managed to hold a draw, that will be a good capital and of course it will increase the confidence of the players. In this group, Indonesia is actually the weakest country when viewed from the ranking, but for now the ranking is just a number for Indonesia seen from the previous 2 matches.
Now the Indonesian squad has been strengthened by several names of players who have experience in the International League, Bahrain defeated the Indonesian squad very naturally because they fell into a group where the average team already had experience playing at world level such as Saudi Arabia and Australia. even so, the Indonesian squad was still able to draw when facing the two largest countries in Asia even though Indonesia is the weakest team in this group, they were able to play very well in their last two matches.