Elkan Baggott’s Indonesia were beaten 3-1 by Iraq in their opening Group D game at the AFC Asian Cup at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan, Qatar this afternoon.

Centre-half Baggott, who was winning his 21st cap, started and having been booked after only two minutes was substituted on 76.

As a result, the Indonesians are third in the group, Japan having beaten Vietnam 4-2 yesterday.

Indonesia next face the Vietnamese on Friday (KO 2.30pm), before completing their group games against the Japanese a week on Wednesday (11.30am).

Town’s other player at the Asian Cup, fellow central defender Cameron Burgess, was an unused sub as Australia beat India 2-0 in their opening match on Saturday.

The Socceroos play their second game against Syria on Thursday morning (KO 11.30am).

In the UK, the whole tournament is being broadcast by TrillerTV, formerly FITE, via their website or app.

Photo: Reuters

IpswichT62OldBoy added 17:06 - Jan 15 Go Iraq
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bobble added 21:10 - Jan 15 no shame for indo , iraq are pretty good.//
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JewellintheTown added 11:06 - Jan 16 Iraq were ranked 63rd before this, Indonesia were 146 of 210, sandwiched between the great footballing nations of Botswana and St.Kitts & Nevis. Vietnam were 94. Japan were 17th. No shame in only losing 3-1 to them then.
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NITFC added 13:03 - Jan 16 How do Australia get to play in the Asian cup? They'll want to enter the Eurovision Song Contest soon
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SoCalTownFan added 16:17 - Jan 17 Baggot looking like a bit of a spare part on the Iraq goals. I think hes an exciting player and would love to see him get more of a chance at ITFC but this didn't seem to show him shining. Maybe if he gets a game for the FA Cup he can show McKenna what he's got after a full international game got him warmed up. If he scores again Indonesia will go crazy!
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