* PRE-MATCH PREDICTIONS
The Vietnamese women's team is in Group C with host Uzbekistan, India and Japan in the second qualifying round of the 2024 Paris Olympics. This is a group that is considered quite difficult with the presence of Asia's number 1 team, Japan, and certainly the goal of coach Mai Duc Chung and his team is to win second place in the group to hope to compete for the only second place in the 3 groups to enter the play-off round.
Vietnam women's team needs to win in the opening match
However, to achieve this goal, coach Mai Duc Chung and his team need to overcome the host team Uzbekistan in the opening match. The host team is ranked 50th in the FIFA women's rankings and is 16 places below the Vietnamese women's team. However, the gap in level between the two teams is not large. In the history of confrontation, the Vietnamese women's team has won all 2 matches against Uzbekistan. The last time the two teams met was on April 3, 2019 with a 2-1 victory for the Vietnamese girls.
Huynh Nhu returns to join her teammates
Despite finishing fourth at the recent ASIAD, the Uzbekistan team lost 0-8 to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the semi-finals and 0-7 to the Chinese women's team in the third-place match. This shows that the Uzbekistan girls are not very strong in defense. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese women's team will have Huynh Nhu return to strengthen the attack along with Hai Yen and Thanh Nha.
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