Vietnam futsal team has dramatic draw; Ronaldo scores hat-trick

Vietnam futsal team draws with African representative

In the second match of the 2024 Ho Chi Minh City International Friendly Futsal Tournament, the Vietnamese futsal team had a thrilling draw against African representative Morocco.

When the match had just passed 22 seconds, in the first siege, Tu Minh Quang suddenly launched a dangerous low shot from afar, sending the ball straight into the goal of the team from Africa. After this goal, Diego Raul's team took the initiative. Thinh Phat and Doan Phat had 2 other good situations to deepen the gap but could not take advantage of it successfully.

Despite being threatened by the home team, Morocco calmly neutralized the attacks and counterattacked when they had the chance. One of those situations helped the away team equalize the score in the third minute. Taking advantage of the large space on the home field of the Vietnamese team, Morocco made a lightning-fast attack. With a beautiful wall pass, Mottaki Sbae tapped the ball close to the goal, equalizing 1-1 for the home team.

But just a minute later, the Moroccan player fouled Thinh Phat in the penalty area, leading to a penalty. On the penalty spot, Duc Hoa fired a precise shot to once again put Vietnam ahead. However, in a sideline situation at the end of the first half, Boutraba chose a good position to easily tap the ball into the net, equalizing the score at 2-2.

In the second half, in the 29th minute, Van Tien fired a close-range shot, raising the score to 3-2 for the home team. After the goal of the Vietnamese futsal team, the two teams played tit for tat towards each other's goal. Goalkeeper Van Y continued to play excellently, so Morocco was helpless in organizing attacks. The situation forced the away team to use power-play tactics to increase their attack power. In the 37th minute, in a sideline combination, the player playing in the power-play position, Mouad Sena, fired a direct shot to equalize the score to 3-3. This was also the final score of the match.

VPF announces the remaining match schedule of V.League, First Division and National Cup 2023/24

Yesterday (March 30), VPF - the organizer of Vietnam's professional football tournaments, announced the schedule for the next rounds of the V.League, First Division and National Cup for the 2023/24 season.

Accordingly, V.League 2023/24 will compete in two rounds 14 and 15, then continue to rest to make way for the 2024 U23 Asian Finals taking place in April. Therefore, the schedule from rounds 16 to 21 of the tournament will restart from May 3 to May 26. Next, V.League will continue to rest to make way for the Vietnamese team to compete in the last two matches of the second qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup in Asia taking place on June 6 and 11.

The First Division will also compete in rounds 13 and 14, then continue to rest to make way for the Vietnam U23 team to compete in the 2024 U23 Asian Cup finals in April. Rounds 15 to 22 of the tournament will start from May 4 to June 29. This is the final stage of the First Division 2023/24 season. The end date of the tournament has been determined, which is the day of the final round (June 29).

Bayern lose hope of winning Bundesliga

The 0-3 defeat at the Allianz Arena extinguished Bayern's last hope in the championship race with Leverkusen. At this time, coach Thomas Tuchel and his team are 13 points behind their opponents, while there are only 7 rounds left in the season.

Against a weakened opponent, Dortmund had rare confidence at the Allianz Arena. In the 19th minute, "Die Borussen" opened the scoring. Starting from a wrong pass by Konrad Laimer, the away team directed the ball to Karim Adeyemi's position. The player born in 2002 fired a not-too-dangerous diagonal shot. However, Sven Ulreich did not handle it well and let the ball go into the net.

Bayern pressed forward for the remainder of the match. The home team's two best chances in the first half were both missed by Tottenham duo Kane and Eric Dier. In the 35th minute, Kane headed over the bar in front of an empty goal. Not long after, Dier had a chance from less than 3 meters away. The Englishman still couldn't take advantage to score.

Bayern had to wait until the final minutes of the match to put the ball in the Dortmund net. The home fans' hopes were immediately extinguished when VAR intervened and took away Kane's goal for offside.

The convincing victory in the German Super Classic helped Dortmund rise to 4th place in the rankings with 53 points, 3 points more than the team behind, Leipzig.

MU lost the victory in the 99th minute

In round 30 of the Premier League, playing away against Brentford, after a good start, MU gradually lost ground to the home team. Throughout the first half, Ten Hag's team almost did not create any truly dangerous opportunities. They only had 3 shots, nearly 5 less than Brentford (14).

In the second half, Brentford continued to show their danger. In the 55th minute, Onana dived to make an excellent save for MU after Yehor Yarmoliuk's dangerous shot in the penalty area. Just 3 minutes later, luck was on MU's side again in this match, when Yoane Wissa's volley hit the post.

In the 72nd minute, MU had a rare opportunity when substitute player Antony used his left foot to send the ball just wide of the home team's post. Immediately after, Toney scored a goal against MU from close range but unfortunately the goal was disallowed due to offside.

Completely outclassed by their opponents, the Red Devils surprisingly scored a goal in the 90+6 minute with the only attacking move of the match. Receiving a pass from Casemiro, Mason Mount, on his return, decisively shot diagonally into the penalty area to score against Brentford.

Just when it seemed that MU had secured victory, in the 90+9 minute, Brentford had a thrilling equalizer from Kristoffer Ajer, which came from the Red Devils' own failed offside trap. In the end, MU and Brentford drew 1-1 on a day when the away team could have lost heavily.

This draw makes MU continue to stand 6th in the Premier League 2023/24 with 48 points, 11 points behind the 4th ranked team Aston Villa but played 1 less match. On April 5, MU will visit Chelsea in round 31.

Ronaldo scored a hat-trick

In the early morning of March 31, Ronaldo scored 3 goals to help Al Nassr beat Al Taee 5-1 in round 25 of the Saudi Arabian National Championship.

After returning from the national team, Cristiano Ronaldo was immediately assigned to start by coach Luis Castro.

Ronaldo played the full 90 minutes and made his mark with 3 goals. In the 65th minute, CR7 got his name on the scoreboard with a turn and shot past Al Taee, from a pass from Sadio Mane. 2 minutes later, he scored twice with a decisive close-range shot. In the 87th minute, Ronaldo received a cross from his teammate and completed his hat-trick with a jump and an accurate header.

Earlier, Otavio and Abdulrahman Ghareeb scored respectively to help Al Nassr take the lead.

On the other side of the front line, Al Taee only had an honorary goal after a great goal by Virgil Misidjan. This striker also extinguished the visitors' hopes of gaining points with a second yellow card in the 36th minute.

The 5-1 victory did not mean much, as Al Nassr is still 12 points behind Al Hilal in the Saudi Pro League standings.