AFC made a mistake in scheduling Vietnam U23's matches.
Coach Park Hang-seo and his team will take to the field at 3 PM on January 23rd, instead of 6:30 PM as announced on the Asian Football Confederation's website.
Vietnam, Qatar, Uzbekistan, and South Korea are the four teams that advanced to the semi-finals of the 2018 AFC U23 Asian Championship. It is expected that the winner of the match between the winner of Group A (Qatar) and the runner-up of Group B (Palestine) will face the winner of the match between the winner of Group C (Iraq) and the runner-up of Group D (Vietnam).
The first semi-final match, as initially announced, took place at...4 PM Beijing time3 PM on Tuesday, January 23rd (Hanoi time). However, the AFC made a mistake when announcing the schedule on its website.
To date, the AFC has not revised the match schedule. This has led to a series of errors on Google, Wikipedia, and other websites.
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The schedule for the AFC U23 Asian Championship finals on the official AFC website is still inaccurate at this time.Screenshot. |
In an announcement on the Vietnam Football Federation's homepage, the VFF confirmed the mistake. Accordingly, the semi-final match of the 2018 AFC U23 Championship between Vietnam and Qatar will take place at 3 PM Hanoi time on January 23rd, at Changzhou Stadium, China.
This is the match schedule determined by the AFC's draw at the beginning of the tournament. To prepare for this match, Coach Park Hang-seo and his team traveled from Changshu to Changzhou, the venue for the semi-final against Qatar.
Similar to their quarter-final match against Iraq, Vietnam had one less day of rest than Qatar. Another advantage for the West Asian representatives was that they didn't have to travel, as they played their quarter-final match in Changzhou.
Previously, another misunderstanding also occurred in Vietnam whenGoogle entered the name Iraq.They advanced to the first semi-final of the U23 Asian Championship, instead of Park Hang-seo's team.
