The Philippine girls’s nationwide soccer staff Filipinas crashed out of its title protection bid within the 2025 AFF Ladies’s Championship (MSIG Serenity Cup) on Wednesday evening in Vietnam.
The world No. 39 Filipinas settled for a draw with Myanmar, 1-1, ending their marketing campaign within the regional meet as they might not bounce again from their 1-0 defeat to Australia U23 last Sunday.
The Mark Torcaso-mentored squad completed in third place of Group B with 4 factors and a +6 purpose distinction (GD), whereas Myanmar and Australia will advance to the semifinals in opposition to the highest two groups of Group A that are Vietnam and Thailand.
The Filipinas opened the event with a blazing 7-0 win against Timor-Leste, which ended up scoreless and dead-last within the standings, however faltered by the hands of the Younger Matildas.
It was the primary time of their seven conferences that the Philippines couldn’t come away with a convincing victory in opposition to Myanmar because the draw proved to be sufficient for the Burmese to assert the highest seed with seven factors and a +4 GD.
Myanmar captain Win Theingi Tun transformed a penalty which was awarded following her collision with Filipinas keeper Olivia McDaniel contained in the field on the thirty third minute.
Regardless of the Philippines’ fightback within the succeeding possessions, Myanmar held on to its benefit like there was no tomorrow.
The slugfest continued within the second half earlier than the Filipinas pulled stage with Nina Mathelus firing a close-range left-footed shot after connecting with Adelaide Wyrzynski on the 71st minute.
Two minutes later, the Burmese almost reclaimed the lead with one other shot heading in the right direction that was saved by McDaniel.
Nevertheless, it received’t be the final show of McDaniel’s regular fingers as she went on to make one other last-minute save together with Azumi Oka, however all of the efforts that adopted went for naught as the ultimate whistle got here on.
The 56th FIFA-ranked Myanmar will proceed to the highest 4 spherical in opposition to Thailand on Saturday.
—JKC, GMA Built-in Information