"We will have a reasonable strategy to minimize the number of goals conceded and if we score, it will be great," coach Mai Duc Chung said about the goal of the Vietnamese women's team in the "opening" match at the 2023 World Cup. Indeed, if they score in the match tomorrow morning (8am on July 22), Huynh Nhu and her teammates will create a miracle that will shock the world.
The US women's team is the strongest team in the world at the moment. They have won the last 2 World Cups (4 times in total). The US team has been number one in the FIFA rankings since June 2017 - that is, for more than 6 years.
Huynh Nhu and teammates face difficult challenges.
How hard is it to score against the US? For a team outside the top 10, scoring against the reigning World Cup champions is a "mission impossible" - and this is proven by some very basic statistics.
The U.S. has won all nine of its last nine matches. It has conceded just twice in that time. Germany's Jule Brand and Brazil's Ludmila da Silva are the only players to score against the U.S.
Before the above 9-match streak, the US team lost 3 consecutive friendly matches and conceded 2 goals in each match. However, the opponents of Alex Morgan and his teammates at that time were teams in the top 5 of the FIFA rankings (England, Spain and Germany).
From April 10 to September 4, 2022, the US team created a streak of 9 consecutive wins without conceding a goal. Since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (taking place in 2021), the US team has only conceded 2 goals when facing teams outside the world's top 10 (Uzbekistan and Nigeria).
Statistics on the US team’s recent performance show that scoring against them is very difficult, even for the world’s top teams. If the Vietnamese women’s team scores in tomorrow’s match, it will be a miracle.
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