The Southeast Asia U23 Championship continued, and in the second round of the group stage, Laos met with Malaysia, laos is the next opponent that Fan Zhiyikou Chinese football team is about to lose, so the match against the powerhouse Malaysia, a small country with a population of only 6.5 million, has also attracted the attention of many fans.
The Lao team has always played the role of a fish belly at the Asian level, and previously could not even enter the qualification rounds of various continental competitions, but in recent years, the Lao team has emerged a lot of professional teams in the country, so they have gradually emerged in the Asian Cup qualification round, the U23 Championship and even the World Preliminary Round. Laos is currently ranked 187 in the world, which is 113 places lower than the Chinese team, while Malaysia is ranked 154th, 33rd higher than Laos, they have always been a strong team in Southeast Asia, posing a great threat to the hegemony of the Vietnamese team.
However, the progress of this game surprised everyone. Originally thought that Laos came to participate, just walk through the motions, feel the hot atmosphere of the U23 Championship, but the Laos team performed bravely, scoring 1 goal in the first and second halves, and finally defeated Malaysia 2-0, thus reaching the final four of this competition. In this campaign, the Lao team had a 52% possession rate, slightly dominant, producing 10 shots on goal in the whole game, 4 more than Malaysia, so that the Lao U23 page made history, locking in the top four of the Southeast Asia U23 Championship in advance.
I have to say that the Laos team's U23 is still a bit level, to know that Malaysia U23 is not a weak brigade, in the 2018 U23 Asian Cup, this team got the 6th place good result, in the 2020 Asian Championships, it was a 2-2 score to force China's U23 Olympic team, to know that the Chinese team's world ranking is 80 places higher than Malaysia, Malaysia can face the national Olympic team, not at all in the inferior, and even almost staged a kill, The Chinese team was reduced to a cold sweat.
On the Lao side, if it can beat Malaysia 2-0 this time, does that mean that if it meets the national football team, Laos can also remain undefeated? Can only sigh that today's football world has changed the sky, the Chinese team was once the second echelon of orthodoxy, but now it is really going to fall to the Vietnamese and Laos teams. In fact, Laos can be a blockbuster in this Southeast Asia U23 Championship, not without reason, the Lao Football Association as early as 5 years ago, with the Premier League giants Chelsea launched a deep cooperation, there are currently a number of Chelsea youth football training bases in Laos, more and more children are in contact with and love this sport.
Now, the Laos team is led by German coach Weiss, who are on the verge of winning the U23 Southeast Asia Cup. On the side of the national football team, the current U23 team is in a state of no ball to play, because the Football Association Chen Shuyuan has announced his withdrawal from next year's U23 Asian Cup, losing a valuable exercise opportunity. At present, it seems that if the real knife and gun play a game with the Lao team, the national football team may not be able to win, at least it is impossible to have such a big victory as 10-0 in the past, and perhaps in the near future, even the Lao team will become the object of learning from Li Xiaopeng and the national football team.