Vietnam National Team has the fairest play in Southeast Asia; Coach Nishino's salary of over 20 billion VND/year is still lower than Park's
(Baonghean.vn) - The Vietnamese national team has once again made Southeast Asian teams like Malaysia and Thailand admire because they received very few penalty cards in the matches of the second qualifying round; the Thai team, despite spending a lot of money to invite foreign coaches, was still inferior to Vietnam.
Vietnam national football team plays the fairest game in Southeast Asia in the 2nd qualifier of World Cup 2022
After winning a ticket to the third qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup, the Vietnam national team made Southeast Asian teams Malaysia and Thailand admire because they received too few penalty cards in the matches in the second qualifying round.
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Fair-play index ranking in Southeast Asia region. |
In the last 8 matches, the Vietnam team only received 9 yellow cards. In 4 matches, the team in red did not receive any cards.
Thai newspaper: Coach Nishino's salary of more than 20 billion VND/year is still lower than Park Hang-seo's
Newspapers expressed disappointment that despite spending a lot of money to invite foreign coaches, the Thai team was still inferior to Vietnam's coach Park Hang-seo.
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Thailand disappointed in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. |
In the past 4 years, Thailand has not only failed to advance to the Asian level as expected, but has also fallen back to the level of Southeast Asia. Even though they have spent a large amount of money to invite prestigious head coaches such as Milovan Rajevac and Akira Nishino, Thailand is currently 30 places behind Vietnam, led by coach Park Hang-seo, in the world rankings. That has made the Thai press extremely disappointed.
Serie A is dominating the Premier League and La Liga at EURO 2020
Not the Premier League or La Liga, Serie A is the tournament that is creating a huge influence at EURO 2020.
Up to this point of EURO 2020, out of a total of 55 goals scored, 18 goals were scored by players from Serie A, accounting for more than 32%.
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In addition, 9/24 Man of the Match awards of the EURO 2020 group stage up to this point have also come from stars of the number 1 tournament in Italy.
Thus, it can be seen that Serie A is having a certain influence at EURO 2020 despite not being rated as highly as the other two tournaments in Europe, the Premier League and La Liga.
Predicting the final match results of EURO 2020 group stage: England, Spain draw again; Germany, France win big
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Italy is showing excellent form at EURO 2020. |
According to predictions, the two disappointing names at EURO 2020, England and Spain, will be held to a draw. Meanwhile, the big names like France and Germany will win big to secure tickets to the round of 16.
Italy 1-0 Wales: Azzurri lead Wales into the round of 16
There were not many surprises in the match between Italy and Wales when the Azzurri won 1-0 with the only goal from Matteo Pessina. Italy won the group with a perfect record.
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Pessina scored the only goal in the match between Italy and Wales. |
With this result and Switzerland only beating Türkiye 3-1, Wales also got a ticket to the round of 16 as second place in the group.