Dien Chau Children's and Thai Hoa Children's continue to demonstrate absolute strength.

Dien Chau 8 Thermal Power Plant - Cua Lo Thermal Power Plant

While the Dien Chau FC players were excited after their opening victory, the Cua Lo FC players had to win to keep their hopes of competing for a ticket to the quarter-finals after their defeat against Thai Hoa FC. Therefore, the confrontation between the two coastal teams was dramatic right from the opening whistle.

In the first minutes of the match, the game was balanced, the players of ND Cua Lo created many opportunities, but could not convert them into goals. In contrast to the unfortunate misses of the other team, in just a moment, the ND Dien Chau team had the opening goal in the 5th minute thanks to Tran Nguyen Anh Quan.

Dien Chau FC (dark blue shirt) won an absolute victory over Cua Lo FC. Photo: Ho Phuong

The goal that broke the deadlock seemed to lift the burden off the feet of the Dien Chau ND players. They continued to deploy beautiful and smooth attacking play. Just 2 minutes after the opening goal, they doubled the gap thanks to number 7 Cao Hoang Dat. The score of 2 - 0 in favor of Dien Chau ND also ended the tense first half.

Entering the second half, it was thought that ND Cua Lo would rise up to find an equalizer, however, they played a lackluster game, with misdirected combinations constantly appearing. ND Dien Chau did not miss the opportunity and immediately poured a rain of goals on their opponents. 6 goals in the second half caused ND Cua Lo's efforts to fail.

At this point, the players of ND Cua Lo could not keep their cool, in a fierce foul against ND Dien Chau, player number 6 Nguyen Xuan Thanh was given a red card by the referee. The score of 8 - 0 in favor of ND Dien Chau was maintained until the end of the match.

Thai Hoa 3 Thermal Power Plant - Thanh Chuong 1 Thermal Power Plant

Although they did not have a "resounding" victory like ND Dien Chau, ND Thai Hoa players still knew how to shine at the right time to bring home 3 valuable points. Right from the 5th minute of the match, player number 6 Nguyen Xuan Truong delicately finished to bring home the opening goal for ND Thai Hoa.

Thanh Chuong FC (white shirt) braced himself to fend off attacks from Thai Hoa FC. Photo: Ho Phuong

The balance continued throughout the rest of the match, however the team that took advantage of the opportunities was still ND Thai Hoa, they scored 2 consecutive goals in the 17th and 25th minutes thanks to players Lo Van Vuong and Hoang Tan Cuong.

The tireless efforts of NĐ Thanh Chuong helped them score a goal to shorten the score in the 29th minute thanks to number 7 Dinh Hoang Duc. However, that was still not enough for the "Nhut" team to turn the game around. The score of 3 - 1 in favor of NĐ Thai Hoa was maintained until the end of the match.