On April 8, Beijing time, in the semi-finals of the Five-a-side Southeast Asian Championship (five-legged Asian Cup qualifiers), the defending champion Thailand defeated Vietnam 3-1 and successfully won the final place of the Asian Cup.
This is the worst defeat of the Vietnamese team in the past two months, and they will compete with the fast-moving Myanmar for the third place. If you lose again, you will not be able to qualify for the Asian Cup. And for the past 2 months, Vietnamese football has been winning. The defeat also gave them a wake-up call, and the progress of other teams in Asia was not slow.
Thai futsal is the hegemon of Southeast Asia and has been a strong contender for the Southeast Asian championship in the past. The five-man national football team has played against Thailand many times 10 years ago, but it has been difficult to win.
However, in this tournament, Thailand and Indonesia drew and only won 2 goals against Malaysia. In this way, they met the Vietnamese team with the second place in the group.
The Vietnamese team just beat Australia 5-1, and morale was very high.
The two teams met 4 years ago, and Thailand once beat their opponents by a big score. Today, both teams have made great strides. At last year's World Cup, Thailand and Vietnam both reached the round of 16 knockout rounds.
Just after the start, the Thai team gained the lead. They firmly control the ball and tear apart the opponent's defense step by step. Unlike the previous group stage, today's Thai team was patient, they transmitted more, which also caused the Vietnamese team to lose physical fitness, laying the groundwork for the team's consecutive goals in 30 minutes.
Sure enough, entering the 31st point, the Vietnamese team has begun to fail to keep up with the pace of the Thai team. Thailand took the opportunity to score consecutive goals and won the match with a score of 3-1.
In the World Preliminary Tournament, Vietnam defeated the national football team 3-1, thus opening up two consecutive months of winning in Vietnamese football.
Later, in the Women's Asian Cup, the Vietnamese women's football team defeated the Thailand and Taiwan Province women's football teams in a row to get tickets to the World Cup. In the U23 Southeast Asia match, Vietnam defeated the Thai team, which was 2 years younger than himself. In the five-legged match, they beat East Timor and Australia respectively, with scores of 10-3 and 5-1 respectively.
But today, they lost to Thailand.
Coincidentally, today's game, and the score of the national football team losing in Hanoi, is also 1-3.
Next, Vietnam will face Myanmar, who just lost 1-6 to Indonesia.
Despite losing the game, Myanmar is the biggest dark horse of the year. In the group stage, they drew with Vietnam and defeated Australia and East Timor.
Unlike the Vietnamese team, in the previous group stage, Myanmar only conceded 1 goal per game, and its defensive ability was quite outstanding. Indonesia, on the other hand, has always been one of the best futsal teams, and they pushed Thailand to take first place in the group stage.
Unlike the national football team and the Vietnamese team, Although Thai football has also experienced landslides, it has always adhered to its own path.
Thai football has a good footwork and the individual ability of the players is outstanding. In addition, in recent years, their size has risen, the 11-man national team and the U23 team, both have tall defenders and frontcourt players. Their attack is not only underfoot, but also has a transitional style of playing in the center. At this point, Thailand is very different from the Vietnamese team that will not be crossed by the bottom.
In the future World Preliminaries, the Thai team is likely to rise again.
In addition, they have quite a few naturalized players of Thai descent who, although born in Europe, are happy to play for the Thai team. Ms. Lampan's ability to pay money also guarantees that these players will not leave.
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