Xuan Truong left on bench in Buriram’s win

Despite facing such a hard-fought Pattaya on their home team, Buriram United still made a great performance, Hosogai came back after a serious injury, Suchao Nuchnum, an experienced Thai striker, played alongside with him.

This could be seen that the chance for Xuan Truong to come off the bench is significantly low. Playing with 3-5-2 formation helped Buriram dominated the game well with a good organization of the midfield.

Missing quite a lot chance, in the 42^nd minute Korrakot made a counterattack and lifted the ball from outside to make Pattaya goalkeeper overstepped

The half-time seemed to be a good chance to change playing style and get an equalizer. However, playing in their home and having a peak performance, Buriram didn’t let Pattaya play attack.

Buriram, in the 65^th minute, smashed their opponent chance to score an equalizer by a penalty goal from Pedro Junior, which double the gap between them, 5 minutes later, the Brazilian player scored another goal with Thitipat’s assist.

A score 3-0 was quite a safe result for the home team until Pattaya scored 2 goals successively which horrified home supporters.

70’: Chitipat assisted Perdo to score a header, which raised the gap to 3-0

65’: Pedro Junior shoot a penalty goal successfully to double the gap.

42’: Korrakot opened the score by bouncing the ball skillfully over the goalmouths’ head from outside penalty area.

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