In order to prepare for the 31st Southeast Asian Games Men's Football Tournament, SOUTHEAST Asian Football Federation held a new Southeast Asia U23 Championship, as one of the favorites to win the championship, Vietnam, directly with a crazy score of 7-0 to hang the Singapore team, the final round will compete with thai teams for the top spot in the group.
The Southeast Asia U23 Championship is a traditional tournament hosted by the Southeast Asian Football Union, and the new tournament is for players born after January 1, 1999. According to the "Sports Weekly" report, the Vietnamese team mainly competes in the 01 age group, and the other teams are mainly 99 age group players, and the average age of the Vietnamese team is 2 years younger.
Even so, the Vietnamese team still showed greater strength. At the end of a group match, the Vietnamese team completely kicked crazy. 1-0 lead in the opening 3 minutes, extended to 3-0 at the end of the first half, shortly after the start of the second half, Singapore was sent off, Vietnam controlled the game, and then scored 4 goals in a row, and finally completed a crazy hanging 7-0.
According to the qualifying rules, the first place in the 3 groups plus the 2nd place with the best result will advance to the semi-finals, and the Vietnamese team will compete with the Thai team for the first place in the group, which team loses, basically can also qualify with a best 2nd place.
For Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand, participating in the Southeast Asia U23 Championship can also prepare for the final round of the U23 Asian Cup that starts in June, and the three teams are exactly in the same group, and they are also in the same group as the defending champion South Korea U23. China's U23 withdrew from the qualifiers early and therefore did not qualify for the finals of the U23 Asian Cup.
Vietnam U23 is a new force in Asian football in recent years, winning the runner-up of the 2018 U23 Asian Cup and reaching the semi-finals of the Asian Games in the same year, with very outstanding results. These outstanding reserve talents have entered the Vietnamese national team and have also appeared in the round of 12 against the Chinese men's football team.
Now the Vietnamese national team in the round of 12 with a 3-1 humiliation score to break the spell of the Chinese men's football team, the future is even more undeterred by the national football team. In addition, the overall strength of Vietnam's U23 is also stronger than China's U23, and for a long time in the future, the national football team will not be able to play the Vietnamese team, whether it is the national team or the youth team, it is difficult to get revenge.