The new Southeast Asia U23 Championship continues, a group game that ended last night, the winning hottest Vietnam team played well, defeated Thailand by a score of 1-0, won the group top, successfully advanced to the semi-finals, will play against the First East Timorese team that has advanced to the top 4 for the first time, after the game, the Vietnamese media confidently said that they are the first in Southeast Asia.
In this tournament, the Vietnamese team was in the same group as the Thai team and the Singapore team, after the Thai team defeated the Singapore team 3-1, and the Vietnam team beat the Singapore team 7-0, the Singapore team was out of the round in advance, and the Vietnamese team and the Thai team competed for the top place in the group.
In the final focus battle, the Vietnamese team continued to perform well, defeating Thailand 1-0, winning 2 consecutive games and ranking first in the group with 6 points, and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
After the game, the Vietnamese media "thethao" posted an article praising the outstanding performance of the Vietnamese team, and also believed that beating the Thai team became the strongest of all the teams in Southeast Asia, and in the case of a lack of major generals, it urgently recruited a number of players, and finally remained the first to qualify.
In this tournament, the Vietnamese team sent players mainly from the 01 age group to participate, and other teams mainly played by players in the 99 age group, that is to say, the average age of the Vietnamese team was exactly 2 years younger. The Vietnamese team sent the U21 team to train ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games, which is far better than the Chinese team.
Southeast Asian teams have made rapid progress in recent years, especially Vietnamese football, the national team has humiliated the Chinese men's football team in the round of 12, and the youth team has gradually shaken off the gap with the Chinese team, the two teams play, vietnam U23 can win the Chinese U23 at least 2 to 3 goals.
In last year's U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team directly withdrew, the Vietnamese team successfully qualified for the final round, and the Southeast Asian teams that advanced at the same time included Thailand and Malaysia. There is no competition experience, only like training, training, and training, the last to the big game can not play people, it is conceivable that the Chinese team in the future against Myanmar, Laos and other Asian teams may not be able to play, at that time the Chinese men's football team really fell into a fish belly.