Vietnam women's team returns home; Ronaldo shines brightly in Al Nassr's victory

Vietnam women's team returns home

Yesterday afternoon (November 4), the Vietnamese women's team arrived at the international lobby of Noi Bai airport (Hanoi), concluding the second qualifying round of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

On behalf of the VFF leadership, Deputy General Secretary Nguyen Minh Chau was present at Noi Bai airport to welcome the team back after their journey in Uzbekistan. Before that, coach Mai Duc Chung's team left Uzbekistan at 9:30 p.m. (local time), transiting at Incheon airport (Seoul, South Korea).

After landing at Noi Bai airport, according to plan, 4 players including Huynh Nhu, Nguyen Thi Tuyet Ngan, Tran Thi Kim Thanh and Tran Thi Thu will connect to a flight to Ho Chi Minh City. However, due to some changes in the itinerary, Huynh Nhu and Tuyet Ngan will travel on the flight after the team. Currently, both are traveling from Korea to Vietnam.

In the second qualifying round of the 2024 Paris Women's Olympics, the Vietnamese women's team lost 0-1 to Uzbekistan, won 3-1 to India and lost 0-2 to Japan (reaching the quarter-finals of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup).

Bich Tuyen still competes in the national volleyball tournament.

After the noise in recent days about some football teams requesting to carefully check the profile of athlete Nguyen Thi Bich Tuyen before the second round of the 2023 national championship, the tournament organizing committee has recently officially responded to experts and the media.

Accordingly, the organizing committee said that the information about some clubs complaining about Bich Tuyen's case is not accurate. Because up to now, the organizing committee as well as the Vietnam Volleyball Federation have not received any official complaints from the teams about the case of the 1m88 tall setter.

Meanwhile, in terms of documents, Bich Tuyen's home team, Ninh Binh LienVietPostBank, has provided all the necessary information. Because there are no complaints from the teams, there is no basis to handle this case.

Therefore, Bich Tuyen will still be able to compete in the second round of the national tournament this year. The first match of Ninh Binh LienVietPostBank will take place at 3:00 p.m. on November 5 against the Information Corps of Truong Tuoi Binh Phuoc.

Arsenal suffered their first defeat in the Premier League.

Newcastle and Arsenal played out a tight contest at St. James' Park in round 10 of the Premier League. The winner and loser were decided by just one goal. There was no standout player in the match, but the referees and VAR were the focus.

In the first half, the ball possession rate between the two teams was not much different. Arsenal was superior in terms of the number of shots, twice as many as the home team. However, coach Mikel Arteta's students only had one shot on target and did not cause any difficulty for the opposing goalkeeper.

The game did not change much in the second half. Arsenal still emphasized ball control and played slowly while Newcastle played aggressively and attacked with quick passes.

The turning point of the match came in the 64th minute when Anthony Gordon scored the opening goal for Newcastle from close range. This situation caused a lot of controversy, even with the intervention of VAR.

Arsenal believe the ball was out of play before the Newcastle player crossed, and slow-motion replays show the visiting defender being pushed to the ground in a challenge in front of goal.

However, VAR determined the ball was in play (although only one camera angle was considered) and there was no foul. The referee did not directly watch the footage and decided to listen to VAR's advice, awarding the goal to Newcastle.

Arsenal went all out in the second half. However, against a very solid defense, the visitors did not have many effective options. Arsenal did not create any chances to equalize and lost their first match in the Premier League this season.

Kane scored a hat-trick, Bayern won big right on Dortmund's field

In round 10 of the Bundesliga, Bayern had a dream start with the opening goal in the 4th minute when Upamecano comfortably jumped high to head the ball into the net of goalkeeper Kobel while being unmarked from a corner kick by Leroy Sane.

Just 5 minutes later, the "Gray Tigers" doubled the gap with an exemplary counter-attack. Receiving a pass from Goretzka, Sane accelerated impressively on the left wing before crossing for Harry Kane to tap the ball into the empty net. 2 goals in less than 10 minutes helped Bayern Munich have an extremely comfortable match while Dortmund was completely helpless right at their "holy land".

The second half did not take place with many surprises as the game was still in Bayern's hands. Most notably, striker Harry Kane, because the English star still managed to score a hat-trick of goals in the 72nd and 90'+3 minutes. This was also the 15th goal of the England captain in the Bundesliga, helping him to top the list of top scorers.

The final score of this match was 4-0 in favor of Bayern. Bayern now has 26 points after 10 rounds and is still 2 points behind the top club Leverkusen.

Ronaldo shines brightly in Al Nassr's victory

In the match between Al Nassr vs Al Khaleej in round 12 of the 2023/24 Saudi Arabian National Championship, Cristiano Ronaldo shone when he scored 1 goal and 1 assist to help the home team win easily 2-0 and is now only 4 points behind the top club Al Hilal.

In this match, despite not having Talisca due to a red card in the cup, Al Nassr still dominated. After Sadio Mane had his goal disallowed in the 10th minute due to an offside error, the home team took the lead in the 26th minute after Ronaldo fired a dangerous long-range shot into the far corner and made it 1-0 for Al Nassr.

With the goal, Al Nassr played better and better. Ronaldo's club continued to dominate the game for the rest of the match. In the 58th minute, Telles crossed the ball to the far post and Ronaldo passed it to center-back Aymeric Laporte to seize the opportunity to finish close to the goal, scoring his first goal in the 2023/24 Saudi Arabian Premier League.

In the following time, Al Nassr created many opportunities but 2-0 was the final result of this match. Thus, Al Nassr continued to maintain the 2nd position on the rankings with 28 points and only 4 points behind the leading team Al Hilal.