Home team create rain of goals?

U.20 Vietnam will participate in the 2025 AFC U.20 Championship finals from September 21 to September 29 at Lach Tray Stadium ( Hai Phong City). Coach Hua Hien Vinh and his team are in Group A, with the presence of U.20 Syria, U.20 Bhutan, U.20 Bangladesh and U.20 Guam. This is considered a group that is suitable for U.20 Vietnam. If they play at their best, host Vietnam can even win big in some matches, because most of the opponents are at a lower level.

Among them, teams like U.20 Guam and U.20 Bhutan are underrated in Asia. For example, Bhutan currently owns a national team ranked only 187th on the FIFA scoreboard, behind Southeast Asian rivals like Vietnam such as Cambodia and Brunei.

Mr. Phan Thanh Hung plays the role of team leader and advisor to support coach Hua Hien Vinh.

In the field of youth football, Bhutan has never participated in the Asian finals, but only played in internal tournaments of South Asian teams, against teams such as Maldives, India or Nepal. Experience is the biggest weakness of coach Hideharu Takahashi and his team. Besides, only competing domestically or within the South Asian region makes the ability to adapt a weakness of Bhutanese youth football in particular and South Asian teams in general.

U.20 Guam is also not highly rated, as it often stops in the Asian qualifiers. For example, in the 2023 qualifiers, U.20 Guam lost 1-10 to U.20 Yemen, 0-9 to U.20 Japan, or 0-5 to U.20 Palestine. Vietnamese football has also faced Guam at many levels and often won big. In 2023, U.23 Vietnam won 6-0 against U.23 Guam. Or in 2015, U.16 Vietnam won U.16 Guam 18-0.

However, coach Hua Hien Vinh and his team should not be complacent. In the U.20 Guam team brought to Vietnam, there are many naturalized players with quite good height. Naturalization is becoming a trend in many Asian football teams, including from mid-level teams such as Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, to teams in lower groups such as Sri Lanka, Guam.

However, with a stronger force, U.20 Vietnam can still win by a large margin if they play at their best.

Match schedule of U.20 Vietnam

Another opponent that is also considered "on par" with Coach Hua Hien Vinh and his team is U.20 Bangladesh. The South Asian representative has participated in the U.20 Asian Cup finals 6 times, but the last time was 22 years ago. The plus point of U.20 Bangladesh is that Coach Maruful Haque's team has played 4 friendly matches in 2024. The careful preparation process is the fulcrum for the South Asian team to nurture the hope of causing a shock.

U.20 Vietnam has an advantage in the match schedule, when they will compete with U.20 Bhutan, U.20 Guam, U.20 Bangladesh before deciding to play U.20 Syria. The matches of coach Hua Hien Vinh and his team are arranged with increasing difficulty.

In the U.20 Asian qualifiers, the 10 group winners and the 5 best second-placed teams will advance. Therefore, U.20 Vietnam needs to try to accumulate goals in matches that must be won by a large margin, to gain an advantage before the final match against an "equally matched" opponent like U.20 Syria.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/lich-thi-dau-moi-nhat-u20-viet-nam-tai-giai-chau-a-chu-nha-tao-mua-ban-thang-185240920113204808.htm