WINGER S. Kunalan is bent on scoring a goal in the second-leg final of the Asean football tournament in Jakarta tomorrow.
“One more goal will kill them off. And I hope to be the one to score that goal,” said Kunalan, who is seeking to claim a first senior international goal since he took a regular spot in the national Under-23 squad for the Laos SEA Games last December.
“The last goal I scored for Malaysia (Under-23) was against Cambodia in the SEA Games. I wish to end the year with a goal to my name in this senior national tournament. It has been too long that I have not scored and getting one is a challenge that I will take against Indonesia,” said Kunalan.
If Malaysia score, they will gain the added advantage on away goals.
Kunalan was a menace to Indonesia in the first-leg match.
The nippy Negri Sembilan player gave the opponents anxious moments with his slick moves and turns when on the ball.
But Kunalan hopes to go one step better tomorrow – to score a goal for Malaysia.
“We lost to them 1-5 in the group stage. It was noisy then and I we will be out to silence them on Wednesday,” he said.
The pint-sized international from Semenyih was part of the squad who won the 2009 Malaysia Cup title for Negri for the first time in 61 years. Barely a month later in Vientiane, he was in the Malaysian team who won the SEA Games gold medal for the first time in 20 years.
Malaysia have not won the AFF title since the tournament was introduced 14 years ago.
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