Nearly a month has passed since the match between the national football team and Vietnam, but as long as the national football team was bloodied by the Vietnamese team 1-3 on the first day of the New Year, it will make the blood pressure of fans soar. After all, before that, China's record against Vietnam was an absolute suppression of 10 wins and 1 draw. And that fiasco ended the national football team's 62-year unbeaten record of Vietnam, which was unacceptable and indignant.
However, in the Southeast Asia U23 Football Championship held on the 25th, the performance of the Vietnamese team once again impressed the fans. They killed their opponents through penalties and advanced to the final. It can be said that all fans are unexpected!
The vietnamese team won against the dark horse East Timor team of this tournament. Although the east Timorese team is not a strong team in the fans' impression, the Vietnamese team did not send their U23 team in this game, but let the U21 players play.
In addition to being slightly inferior to East Timor in terms of age and physical fitness, the Vietnamese team also has a number of players infected with the new crown virus. So they had to urgently transfer a group of younger players to the team lineup. In this unfavorable situation of playing strong with the weak and playing the big with the small, the Vietnamese team not only did not let the game lose suspense, but instead became more and more courageous in the face of adversity!
In the end, they withstood the pressure and played a wave of 4 consecutive wins, defeating East Timor 5:3 in a penalty shootout to advance to the final and compete with Thailand for the championship of the championship.
In fact, from the group stage all the way, the performance of this Vietnamese team is remarkable. They first eliminated Singapore by a 7-0 score, and then defeated other opponents by a narrow margin of 1-0 to win the first place in the group. Then, after playing 0-0 in regular time in East Timor, they shot down their opponents 5-3 on penalties to advance to the final.
It is understood that in order to motivate players to continue to create good results, the Vietnamese side has awarded the team 1 billion VND (equivalent to about 270,000 yuan). To tell the truth, although the reward is only 270,000 yuan, it is estimated that no one is willing to sweat in the national football team!
But the Vietnamese players are really desperate, and in the absence of paper advantages, not only did they not collapse, but they played morale, so that any team in Southeast Asia did not dare to underestimate. No wonder they were not afraid of the stage when they faced the Chinese men's football team at the beginning of this year.
It is worth noting that the Vietnamese team, whose average age is only about 21 years old, will once again play in the Asian Cup in September this year. China is the host country of this men's Asian Cup, which means that if the men's football team has the opportunity to meet Vietnam again, the match between the two teams will definitely get a lot of attention.
After winning the game 3-1 before, the head coach of the Vietnamese team has made a bold statement that they will learn from their adult team, although they are not optimistic, but they are not afraid of challenges, they have the ability to create miracles in the game!
Therefore, if the national football team really has a backbone, it must take out 12 points of concentration to face every opponent in the Asian Cup.
Although the previous results of the men's football team in the Asian Cup have always been good, they have a history of reaching the top eight in Asia, and even won two runners-up. However, the current state of the national football team is different from the past, and anyone may lose. If they don't want to be insulted at the doorstep, this battle must be won!