Why does the Vietnamese team score higher than Indonesia?
The 2024 AFF Cup will take place from November 23 to December 21. The draw for the tournament will take place in Hanoi on May 21.
Before the draw ceremony, a representative of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) said that the Vietnamese team will be the seed of 1 of 2 groups at the AFF Cup 2024.
The task that VFF assigned to coach Kim Sang-sik is to bring the Vietnamese team to at least reach the final of the AFF Cup 2024.
According to the seeding method in this tournament, the results of the last 2 AFF Cups will be taken into account. Accordingly, the champion team in each tournament will get 11 points, the second place team will get 10 points, the third place team will get 9 points, the fourth place team will get 8 points (seed points)... The number of seed points decreases according to the ranking of the teams in each tournament.
Thailand, with 2 consecutive championships, has 22 points, and will of course be the seed in group 1. Vietnam and Indonesia have both finished second and entered the semi-finals once. However, the Vietnamese team is better than Indonesia in terms of additional indexes. Although the 2020 and 2022 AFF Cups do not have a third-place match, according to the ranking method of the Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF), the Vietnamese team ranked 3rd in the 2020 AFF Cup, while Indonesia only ranked 4th in the 2022 AFF Cup. Therefore, the Vietnamese team has a total of 19 points in the last 2 AFF Cups, while Indonesia only has a total of 18 points. Therefore, the team of coach Kim Sang-sik (Korean) is ranked higher than the team of coach Shin Tae-yong in terms of seeding.
This means that the Vietnamese team is in the same seed group as Thailand in this year's AFF Cup, and we will be the seeds of a group in the tournament. Indonesia and Malaysia (in the semi-finals of the 2022 AFF Cup) will be in the seed group number 2. With this detail, the Indonesian team is likely to be in the same group as the Vietnamese team (if the Vietnamese team is in the same group as Indonesia, it will be in a different group than Malaysia, or vice versa).
Vietnam team at Asian Cup 2023
Interesting confrontation between two compatriots Shin Tae-yong and Kim Sang-sik
This could be the draw result that Vietnamese fans are looking forward to. Fans and experts in the country in general are eager to see the Vietnamese team meet Indonesia again, after we lost bitterly to the team from the archipelago country 3 times this year, including 1 time at the 2023 Asian Cup (taking place in early 2024) and 2 times in the 2nd qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup in Asia, in March.
Singapore fell into pot 3 along with the Philippines. Singapore also has 15 seed points like Malaysia, but is inferior to its opponent in terms of secondary index. Pot 4 has Myanmar and Cambodia. Laos is in pot 5, in the same group with 1 of the 2 teams that will play in the play-off round of the AFF Cup 2024, Brunei and Timor Leste.
With this calculation, the most difficult group that the Vietnamese team can face at the AFF Cup this year will be the group with Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar and Laos. The format of the AFF Cup 2024 is similar to the format of the last 3 AFF Cups 2018, 2020 and 2022. That is, the 10 teams participating in the AFF Cup finals will be divided into 2 groups, each group has 5 teams. The teams will compete in a round-robin in the group stage, at home and away (each team has 2 home matches and 2 away matches, through a draw). The top 2 teams in each group will advance to the semi-finals. From the semi-finals, the matches will be played in a knockout format after 2 home and away matches, at home and away.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/boc-tham-aff-cup-ngay-215-tai-ha-noi-doi-tuyen-viet-nam-som-tai-ngo-indonesia-185240512133016678.htm
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