Spiritual impressions of Vietnam's "steel roses"

At 8:00 a.m. on July 22 (Vietnam time), the Vietnamese women's team made a mark in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup history at Eden Park (New Zealand) against the defending champion, the United States. And although the Vietnamese women's team lost 0-3 to the United States, which was predicted in advance, what the Vietnamese girls showed really left a good impression in the hearts of fans.

The opening match of the Vietnam women's team against the US women's team at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Source: fifa

Putting on the field the best players such as Kim Thanh, Huynh Nhu, Thu Thuong, Diem My, Bich Thuy... and choosing a defensive style of play is the way that coach Mai Duc Chung chose for the historic debut of the Vietnamese women's team in the confrontation with the reigning champion US in Group E (2023 FIFA Women's World Cup finals). However, facing a very strong team like the US team with 4 championships, the mark of the Vietnamese women's team is the resilient fighting spirit, high concentration to fight back against the massive attacks of the US female players. Match statistics show that the US team completely controlled the match with 73% possession time, launched 28 shots towards the Vietnamese women's goal, 8 shots on target including 3 goals, made 465 passes, and received 9 corner kicks. As for the Vietnamese women's team Male The focus on the defensive front as well as the disadvantage in class made the students of coach Mai Duc Chung have a difficult match. In the debut match of the Women's World Cup, the "steel rose" girls of the Vietnamese women's team played with more than 100% of their strength, in which the most outstanding was goalkeeper Kim Thanh, who successfully blocked the 11m kick of Alex Morgan, the number 1 striker of the US women's team as well as prevented many shots and dangerous attacks from the opponent. In the final minutes of the match, the US women's team continued to increase the pressure, hoping to score more goals, but all of their attacks were blocked by the girls of the Vietnamese women's team. Male push back. On the fifa website, experts highly appreciated the performance of the Vietnamese women's team and said that coach Mai Duc Chung's students had a good performance against the strength of the team that has won the tournament 4 times and will confidently enter the remaining matches with opponents such as: Portugal, Netherlands.

Speaking to the media after the match, Mr. Vlatko Andonovski, Head Coach of the US Women's Team, said that although the US Women's Team won, he was not satisfied with the performance of his players: "We created a lot of chances and wanted to score more goals, but that was not possible. Hopefully we can improve that in the upcoming match against the Netherlands. We take things one game at a time and the match against the Netherlands is our focus now."

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