Head-to-head history between U23 Vietnam and U23 Laos: We have absolute dominance

Recent form: Vietnam U23 stable, Laos U23 in crisis

Vietnam U23 entered the 2025 Southeast Asian U23 tournament with a fairly stable performance, despite having just gone through difficult challenges in the Asian U23 qualifiers. In the last 5 matches, coach Kim Sang Sik's team won 2 important victories against Malaysia (2-0) and Kuwait (3-1), and only lost narrowly to strong opponents such as Iraq or Jordan. The current squad of Vietnam U23 possesses many outstanding factors such as Van Khang, Van Truong, Thanh Nhan or Viktor Le - faces who have international competition experience and play a pivotal role in the squad.

Meanwhile, U23 Laos has shown an unconvincing performance. In the last 5 matches, they have not won any, drawn 2 and lost 3, including heavy defeats against Australia (1-7) and Vietnam (1-4). Although U23 Laos tried their best to hold Cambodia to a 1-1 draw in the opening match of Group B, overall, the team from the Land of a Million Elephants still revealed many limitations in terms of organization, physical strength and defense.

Head-to-head history: U23 Vietnam won all matches, scoring many big goals

The history of confrontations between U23 Vietnam and U23 Laos shows the absolute dominance of the red team. In the last 4 meetings, U23 Vietnam won all 4 matches, scored a total of 16 goals and only conceded 2. The victories of 5-0 (2013), 6-1 (2019), 4-1 (2023) are clear evidence of the difference in class between the two football backgrounds.

Not only superior in skill, U23 Vietnam also shows stability in the way of playing and bravery in regional tournaments. Meanwhile, U23 Laos still mainly focuses on competing and accumulating experience in playgrounds such as U23 Southeast Asia. Therefore, each encounter between the two teams is always one-sided and is an opportunity for U23 Vietnam to test the squad, maintaining momentum for the long journey ahead.