The Bali United Post
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Thijmen Goppel runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Feb 2028
Bali United make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
A defender's goal wins it for Bali United — 7.73
1 for Mirza Mustafić, marked 7.73, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Bali United
Jort van der Sande and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Feb 2028
Whatever happens, Bali United do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match12 Feb 2028
Bali United see off PSIM
Three points for Bali United, 3‑1 the final word against PSIM in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Bali United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mirza Mustafić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Diego Campos stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.85 on the card, and the Bali United support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Too much change too quickly at Bali United
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Squad Egy Darmawan stays put
- The dugout Hendro Sulaeman: “That is the standard”
- The dugout When it matters, Tim Receveur plays