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Penang end season with win

PENANG FC head coach Wan Rohaimi Wan Ismail described his side’s 2-1 victory over DPMM FC in their final 2025/2026 Super League match on Friday night as a special gift for supporters after a challenging sea son. He said the result was significant as the “Black Panthers” had struggled to secure wins in recent matches. “ Alhamdulillah , what we had been wait ing for finally came in the last match. Although many chances were not con verted, at least we won 2-1, and this victory is for Penang FC supporters,” he said after the match at the City Stadium in George Town. Reflecting on the season, Wan Rohaimi said Penang FC’s achieve ment was commendable, given that 95% of the squad consisted of new players. He said that although the team had a slow start, they managed to improve in the second half of the campaign, finishing eighth in the Super League, while also

ance in the Malaysian Super League as an important learning process despite chal lenges with consistency, injuries and sus pensions throughout the season. He added that next season, DPMM FC would retain several players who per formed well and bring in new signings to strengthen the squad in a bid to compete in the top half of the table. “Next year we’re back stronger. We’ll make better signings and bring in better players because we want to compete and challenge the top half of the table, and that’s what we’ll look to do,” he said. The final match of the season saw Penang FC end an eight-game winless run, finishing eighth with 25 points, while DPMM FC ended in 10th place with 23 points. – Bernama

reaching the FA Cup quarterfinals and becoming Challenge Cup finalists. On plans for next season, Wan Rohaimi said it was still too early to discuss, and left it to the Penang FC management to evalu ate his performance with the team this sea son. Meanwhile, DPMM FC head coach Jamie McAllister said his side needed to quickly address weaknesses, particularly in disci pline, after individual errors, lapses in con centration and poor decision-making proved costly in George Town. “I thought it was a bad performance. We were very poor today, especially individu ally, making so many mistakes and bad decisions. I can’t defend that. The players have got to take responsibility,” he said. He also viewed DPMM FC’s first appear

Goh Izzuddin fall short Professional doubles pair go down fighting to Indian world No. 4 duo in Thailand Open

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National men’s doubles pair Goh Sze Fei (left) and Nur Izzuddin Rumsani react during yesterday’s Thailand Open semifinal clash against Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty (not pictured). – BERNAMAPIC

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NATIONAL professional men’s doubles pair Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani pushed India’s top seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty to the limit before bowing out in a gruelling 82-min ute Thailand Open semifinal tie at Nimibutr Stadium in Bangkok yester day. The world No. 9 Malaysians went down 21-19, 20-22, 16-21 to the world No. 4 Indian pair in a closely fought encounter. Sze Fei-Izzuddin’s coach, Ameer Amri Zainuddin, said his players had deliv ered a commendable performance against one of the world’s top pairs. Ameer said the opening game was evenly contested, with the Malaysians managing to maintain their composure to edge ahead, but they lost momentum

play and solid defence displayed by the Indian combination. Sze Fei admitted that consistency remains an area they need to improve, particularly in deciding games, after conceding too many early points. “We lost too many points early in the decider, which affected our focus as we tried to chase the game,” he said. The defeat denied the Malaysians a chance to reach their second final of the year, having won the Indonesia Masters in January. It was Satwiksairaj-Chirag’s eighth win over the Malaysians in 10 meetings. Despite the defeat, Sze Fei-Izzuddin said they are determined to bounce back and deliver a strong performance at next week’s Malaysia Masters in front of the home crowd. – Bernama

in the second game despite holding an advantage. “We actually had a slight advantage playing against the wind in the second game, but they were too eager to finish off the match and the Indian pair capi talised on it,” he said after the match. Despite losing, Ameer said their achievement in this tournament will boost their confidence ahead of the Malaysia Masters next week. The third-seeded Malaysian duo started brightly and comfortably secured the opening game after leading for most of the contest. However, the Indian pair raised their intensity in the second game to level the match despite a late fightback from the Malaysians. In the decider, Sze Fei-Izzuddin strug gled to cope with the relentless attacking

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Malaysia too good for Singapore at Takraw World Cup MALAYSIA started Group C action of the 2026 Sepak Takraw World Cup with a bang when they defeated Singapore 2-0 at Titiwangsa Stadium in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The national squad, com matches today.

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terms of blocking, the Indian and South Korean squads are better than us. We have to accept that, but in terms of our game, we are equal,” he said when met after the match. In the other opening matches yesterday, Thailand defeated Indonesia 12-15, 15-13, 15-7 and will meet Vietnam in the next match of Group D while Vietnam defeated Japan 15-6, 10-15, 15-11. – Bernama

In the second set, Malaysia made a change by introducing Jefri Ahmad to replace team captain Amirul Zazwan before confirming a 15-13 victory over the Singaporean quadrant of Mohammad Fairuz Azahari, Hairul Fizly Abdullah, Youri Adli Fathullah Ahmadi and Akmal Musyarraf Rostam. Malaysia is scheduled to play South Korea and India in the second and third Group C

Meanwhile, Amirul Zazwan admitted that the national squad had to fight hard to penetrate Singapore’s game and need to immediately improve their serving and blocking aspects ahead of the matches against India and South Korea, which are consid ered more challenging. “For today, my serve did not help Malaysia get points. In

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prising Muhammad Afifuddin Mohd Razali, Muhammad Shahalril Aiman Halim, Amirul Zazwan Amir and Aidil Aiman Azwawi, had no problem domi nating the first set to win 15-9.

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