What did the regional press say about the death group of U22 Vietnam at SEA Games 29?

After the draw for the men's football group stage at the 29th SEA Games, many newspapers in the Southeast Asian region discussed the group of death with the appearance of Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Timor Leste and Cambodia.

As we know, the draw of luck has placed U22 Vietnam in group B - the group of death, with opponents Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Timor Leste and Cambodia. Meanwhile, group A is much easier with the appearance of teams Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Laos, Brunei.

U22 Vietnam falls into a difficult group at SEA Games 29

This event attracted special attention from the regional press. ABS-CBN (Philippines) headlined: “Philippines in the group of death with champions Thailand and Vietnam at the 29th SEA Games”.

In particular, this newspaper emphasized that this group has 3/4 teams participating in the semi-finals of the 28th SEA Games: Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia. Not to mention the U22 Philippines is also very formidable. According to ABS-CBN, the U22 Philippines team participating in this tournament includes several national players of the Philippines and excellent players in the student tournament of this country.

Fox Sport also rated Group B as the group of death with champion Thailand, Philippines (leading team on FIFA rankings), Vietnam (bronze medalist of SEA Games 28), Indonesia (ranked 4th in SEA Games 28), Cambodia and Timor-Leste.

Similarly, the Singapore version of FourFourTwo was also "happy" because U22 Singapore avoided the group of death with many "tough" opponents such as Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia...

Bernama (Malaysia) is confident in the ability of U22 Malaysia to advance with the article: "Malaysia has the ability to advance deep in the SEA Games when falling into an easier group". This newspaper also quoted coach Ong Kim Swee talking about the draw results: "Malaysia still needs to be cautious against opponents Myanmar, Singapore and cannot be subjective against Laos and Brunei. We must ensure that all players are at their peak performance at the time of the tournament".

Meanwhile, The Star (Malaysia) admitted that U22 Malaysia was “lucky” to avoid an extremely difficult group. Therefore, they are confident that U22 Malaysia can aim for the gold medal of the tournament./.

According to Dantri