Indonesian media praised Vietnam U20 for being extraordinary
According to Bola newspaper, Vietnam is in the group of death with Qatar, Australia and Iran, but has superior results compared to more highly rated competitors. "Vietnam showed extraordinary performance with two wins," the newspaper commented.
Indonesia's Okezone and Kompas TV channels were also impressed with the match between Vietnam and Qatar 2-1 on March 4. Okezone described the match as having a "crazy" scenario and Vietnam "has a great chance to make it to the quarterfinals", while Kompas called coach Hoang Anh Tuan's start to the tournament "perfect".
Before Qatar yesterday, Vietnam opened the scoring in the second half of the first half thanks to Quoc Viet after a sharp counterattack. In the 84th minute, Qatar equalized 1-1 from striker Ahmed Al Rawi's controversial penalty. However, the reverse header from Van Truong's fixed situation in the 90th minute still helped Vietnam get the best result.
"Vietnam stripped Qatar of a precious point at the last minute," commented Marsalqatar newspaper. "Qatar entered the game easily and played better with many times threatening the Vietnamese goal, but squandered the opportunity."
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) praised Nguyen Quoc Viet - the player who has scored twice since the beginning of the 2023 U20 tournament. "Vietnam's No. 10 striker shows us how effective and dangerous it is on the flanks." , the AFC website writes.
However, Qatar's Marsalqatar newspaper and Uzbekistan's Tribuna.uz both made the mistake of reporting that Vietnam became the first team to win tickets to the quarter-finals of the AFC U20 Championship 2023. AFC also made the same mistake, then had to correct the information on the reports. social network channel.
After two rounds of Group B matches, Vietnam won six points, three points ahead of Australia and Iran, but still at risk of being eliminated from the group stage. In the last turn, if Vietnam loses to Iran and Australia wins against Qatar, the three teams have the same six points, then the confrontation parameters between the three teams are taken into account and Vietnam will lose.
The last match of Group B will take place at the same time at 5:00 p.m. on March 7.
