The new Southeast Asia U23 Championship came to the semi-final stage, last night's first end of a match, Vietnam and Timor-Leste regular time to play a 0-0 draw, and finally through the penalty shootout to divide the winner, Vietnam 5-3 eliminated Timor-Leste, advanced to the final, the opponent will be between Thailand and Laos.
Prior to the group stage, Vietnam defeated Singapore 7-0 and 1-0 against Thailand, the first qualifying team in the group, East Timor's first round 2-2 Philippines, the second round 3-1 Brunei, the last round 1-0 Cambodia, the team 2 wins 1 draw accumulated 7 points to advance, joined the AFC 17 years ago, for the first time in the southeast Asian championships of the final four, creating a team record.
The East Timorese team rested for 3 days, and the Vietnamese team only had 2 days off, so the physical strength was at a disadvantage. In addition, in order to train troops for the 2024 Olympic Games, the Vietnamese team sent players mainly from the 01 age group to participate, and the other teams were mainly players in the 99 age group, and the average age of the Vietnamese team was 2 years younger, and finally the Vietnamese team broke out continuously.
Within 120 minutes of the regular season, the two teams played a 0-0 draw, and finally entered the penalty shootout, the first 3 penalties of the two teams were scored, the 4th penalty of East Timor was saved, and the 4th and 5th penalties of Vietnam were scored, and finally eliminated East Timor 5-3 and advanced to the final first.
Statistics, the Vietnamese team has an absolute upper hand, 70% possession rate of the whole game, completed 14 shots on goal and 9 shots on target, and a 6-3 lead in corners, The East Timorese team also almost broke out of the big cold, and finally regretted out.
The East Timorese team is only ranked 198th in the world, is one of the world's super fish belly, has long been the sending boy of Asian teams, and now that the youth team has begun to rise, the strength of the national team has also been greatly improved.
In recent years, Vietnamese football has continued to make progress, men's football at all levels of the national brand gradually throw away the Chinese men's football team, the national team level, the Vietnamese men's football team has been humiliated by the national football team in the round of 12 3-1, before the U23 age group is also the same, and now the strength gap between the two teams is 2 to 3 goals.
The Vietnamese team actively trained the team, this time sending the U21 age group still won 3 consecutive victories to advance to the final, promising to win the championship and hit the Chinese men's football team again.
The Chinese men's football team has been training, training and retraining in the past two years, taking the initiative to give up the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, without competition experience, and has been thrown away by Southeast Asian teams.