Although Malaysia U23 have been drawn against Middle Eastern teams in Group C of the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship, striker Thanabalan Nadarajah is not perturbed about the seeming physical disadvantage faced by his side.
When met by the press at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) before leaving with the team for the second phase of their centralised camp in South Korea, Thanabalan said that the Young Tigers will be relying on one advantage they have over their group opponents; Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
"Of course Arab players are physically bigger than us, but we have the advantage of speed over them.