World Cup Qualification
AFC – Group 6
Sun. 28 May 1989
Kick-off:
Gelora Senayan Main Stadium,
Jakarta
Att.: 80,000
Video: highlights
Indonesia 0 – 0 Japan
Ref.: Salah Mohammed Karim
L1: Rahim Subhi
L2: Abdel Kader Latif
(All Iraq)
Preview
Both Indonesia and Japan were in action for the second time in the qualification, and a significant result from the other match in this group, played the evening before, was Hong Kong 1, North Korea 2. This saw to that a win for either of today’s combatants meant they would be joining the Koreans atop the group with four fixtures left.
Japan had failed to see off Hong Kong earlier in the week, and were surely realizing that they were once again up against home opposition which would receive plenty of vocal support from their fans, meaning that they would need to maximize their effort to return back home with both points. For Indonesia to have drawn against North Korea a week earlier had been a terrific result, and they must have felt optimistic ahead of the visit of the Japanese select.
Indonesia (4-5-1)
Player | Notes | Age | Club |
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1 Eddy Harto | 27 | KTB Palembang | |
3 Jaya Hartono | 25 | Petrokimia Putra | |
6 Robby Darwis | 24 | Kelantan | |
9 Ricky Yacobi | 26 | Arseto Solo | |
10 Jessie Mustamu | 26 | ||
11 I Made Pasek Wijaya | 19 | Pelita Jaya | |
12 Maman Suryaman | 25 | ||
13 Mustaqim | sub 61′ | 24 | |
14 Rully Nere | 32 | Persipura Jayapura | |
15 Herry Kiswanto | 34 | KTB Palembang | |
18 Lubis Hamdani |
Substitutes | |||
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8 Agusman Riyadi | on 61′ | ||
Japan (3-5-2)
Player | Notes | Age | Club |
---|---|---|---|
1 Shigetatsu Matsunaga (c) | 26 | Yokohama Marinos | |
2 Katsuyoshi Shinto | 28 | Mazda | |
5 Tetsuji Hashiratani | 24 | Nissan Motors | |
6 Takumi Horiike | 23 | Yomiuri | |
7 Masami Ihara | ![]() | 21 | Yokohama Marinos |
9 Masaaki Mori | 27 | Fujita Industries | |
10 Masanao Sasaki | 26 | Honda | |
13 Satoru Mochizuki | 25 | Nippon Kokan | |
16 Mitsunori Yoshida | 27 | Júbilo Iwata | |
17 Osamu Maeda | sub 82′ | 23 | Yokohama Marinos |
23 Kenta Hasegawa | sub 86′ | 23 | Nissan Motors |
Substitutes | |||
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8 Takashi Mizunuma | on 81′ | 29 | Yokohama Marinos |
21 Hiroshi Kurosaki | on 86′ | 21 | Honda |
Tactical line-ups
Match report
First half:
While we do not have any information on the attendance figure for Indonesia’s opening qualifier the previous weekend, the Jakarta national stadium is pretty well populated for the visit of Japan. The number is given as 80 000, although the arena was said to hold in excess of 100 000 at the time. Since our video from the game has no display of all corners of the stands, we can’t verify the figure. There is no reason not to find it credible, as views of some of the sections reveal how well populated they are.
Indonesia’s manager Nirwan Bakrie had decided to go with precisely the same eleven starters as last time around. Unfortunately, we do not possess any video material from the 0-0 draw against North Korea. Bakrie was said to run a pretty organized and strict regime for the national team players, and later in the year, they would go on and win the football tournament of the South East Asian Games, on that occasion held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the sixth time in seven attempts since 1977. However, to have to make do without ‘the Indonesian Maradona’, Zulkarnain Lubis, must have been a set-back to the management team. Still, the select contained players who appear to have been held in very high regard at the time.

Japan had hardly impressed in their qualification opener in Hong Kong, and a draw had been just about the fitting result six days earlier. Their manager, Kenzo Yokoyama, had made to changes to his starting eleven, with defender Tomoyuki Kajino and midfielder Kasumi Oenoki giving way to Katsuyoshi Shinto and Satoru Mochizuki respectively. They retained their 3-5-2 formation. Were they to retain a serious hope of making it through to the final qualification round, they could certainly not afford a defeat here.