The new Southeast Asia U23 Championship has attracted much attention, and in a focus battle that ended last night, Laos won another 2-0 game, double-killed Malaysia in two legs, and successfully qualified for the first place in the group, and Malaysia was eliminated.
The Southeast Asia U23 Championship is a traditional tournament hosted by the Southeast Asian Football Union, this tournament, except for the Vietnamese team to send players mainly from the 01 age group, the other teams are mainly 99 age group players. Previously, Vietnam U21 beat Singapore with a 7-0 score, with an average age of 2 years less.
The Vietnamese team is now a fierce rival of the Chinese men's football team, and now the Laos team is replicating the Vietnamese team step by step. In this tournament, the Laos team and Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, and finally Myanmar and Indonesia withdrew, leaving only Laos and Malaysia in the group, southeast Asian Football Union decided to let the two teams compete for two legs, the winner determined the first place in the group, and the loser was directly eliminated.
In the first leg that ended on February 18, Laos broke out of the big cold, won 2-1, ending a 6-game losing streak against Malaysia, and as long as the second leg was drawn, it could force Malaysia to qualify.
In the second leg that ended on the evening of February 21, Laos scored with a free kick in the 43rd minute of the first half to lead 1-0, and in the 85th minute of the second half, Laos scored another goal to win 2-0, and beat Malaysia 4-1 in both legs.
Founded in 1951, the Lao football team joined the AFC in 1980, the first time in the team's 42-year history that the team has beaten Malaysia in two consecutive matches in the same tournament.
The Laos team has made great progress in recent years, and the important contributor is the German coach Weiss, who was the assistant of the Chinese 85-year-old national youth team when it participated in the 2005 World Youth Championships in the Netherlands.
Laos ranked 187th in the world, 33rd lower than Malaysia, is the world's recognized fish belly team, and now outstanding performance, step by step, will be another fierce rival of the national football team. The national football team has lost to the Vietnamese team, fans do not want to lose myanmar, Laos and other fish belly teams, considering that the national football reserve talent can not stand up, the U23 age group alone has fallen behind too much, the future is difficult.