(PLO)- The two best teams in the qualifying group, Indonesia and Australia, were defeated by the two ticket winners, Vietnam and Iraq, in the AFC U-20 Championship, respectively.
If in Group B of the Asian U-20 Championship, U-20 Vietnam (VN) played their first match against U-20 Australia 1-0, in Group B, Iraq defeated Indonesia 2-0.
Thus, the opening two matches of Groups A and B of the U-20 Asian Finals being held in Uzbekistan have had paradoxes.
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U-20 Indonesia (red) and the first team of Group F qualifying, while Iraq (blue) won the ticket. Photo: CTP |
U-20 VN is the team that won the ticket in the qualifying round of Group F to compete in Indonesia. In the final group match, although Vietnam led Indonesia 2-1, but then lost 2-3 in reverse. Indonesia participated in the final round of the AFC U-20 Championship as the top team. Indonesia is also the host of the U-20 World Cup, which will take place on May 20.
Meanwhile, Australia U-20 is the winner of Group H, in which they have won all three group stage matches. And Iraq is the team that won the pick-up ticket, the last ticket they “taken” from Thailand U-20. When determining the fifth winning ticket of the tournament, Thailand and Iraq had a +3 difference, and scored eight goals, but Iraq won the last ticket because they were better in the Fair Play index, ie fewer cards. .
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…But Indonesia lost to Iraq 0-2 in the first match. Photo: CTP |
The first two teams of the qualifying group Australia and Indonesia today entered the first match of the Asian U-20 tournament, losing to the teams that won tickets to Vietnam and Iraq.
Coach Hoang Anh Tuan’s teachers and students have just won a close match against U-20 Australia. The only goal of the match was scored by Nguyen Quoc Viet in the sixth minute. With Iraq, if they are better, they will not only score two goals against Indonesia.
Hyder Abdulkareem opened the scoring for Iraq in the 28th minute. In the 72nd minute, Iraq was awarded a penalty. On the 11m mark, Ahmad shot the ball down very tight, but turned on the post and went out, causing Iraq to lose the opportunity to increase the gap.
However, when the match had only a few seconds left in the six-minute stoppage time, in the 90+5 minute, Iraq had a second goal. In the end, Iraq beat Indonesia 2-0.
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Quoc Vietnam scored the only goal in the match to help Vietnam beat Australia 1-0. Photo: CTP |
Attending this Asian U-20 continental tournament as a rehearsal so that next May, Indonesia U-20 will attend the U-20 World Cup as the host. Coach Shin Tae-yong’s students seem to be good, not rough, “cutting nails and cutting iron” as they often show in Southeast Asian tournaments.
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