Malaysian football team supporters are still in high spirits despite it going down 3-5 to Singapore in the first leg.
They believe that the Harimau Malaya squad will be able to regain the high ground and turn the tables on the Singapore Lions in the second leg of the Asian Zone World Cup second round qualifying match at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil tomorrow.
Social networking sites are abuzz with talk of the game, while others have uploaded pictures of their tickets they had purchased.
Firdaus Ishak, 25, who is part of the fanatical Ultras Malaya group, urged Malaysian fans to write down the scores they want on big yellow manila cards as an added impetus to the Malaysian players.
Larry Eden Gomez, 30, is also confident the Malaysian team will rise up to the challenge against Singapore at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium.
“Everyone will be rooting for them and I am sure the team will be able to mount a fight,” he said.
Meanwhile, sales of Malaysian jerseys are going well.
Nike Malaysia country marketing manager Joan Yeoh said stocks of the jerseys, which cost RM199 each, are fast running out after the second shipment was brought in a few weeks ago.
FAM tickets and gate committee chairman Datuk S. Sivasundram said they were expecting a capacity 85,000 crowd for the match.
He said 60,000 tickets had been sold so far, of which all grandstand tickets have been snapped up. Online tickets have also been sold out.
The remaining 25,000 tickets priced at RM30 each are still available today at the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MBPJ) Stadium, Shah Alam Stadium and Bukit Jalil Stadium.
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