Reuters, Bein Sports and world media admire Vietnam National Team
(Baonghean.vn) - After the match, many media channels in Jordan said that the home team deserved to lose because they lost the game quite easily in the second half. The world press also devoted many pages to coach Park Hang-seo and his team.
Video Vietnam beat Jordan, entered the quarter-finals of Asian Cup 2019. Video: AFC |
The Royalnews newspaper of the neighboring country headlined: “Jordan lost to Vietnam on penalties”. In the article, the author admitted that Jordan lost the game in the second half and let Vietnam rise up to equalize.
Similarly, Al-Anbat also admitted that the Jordanian team did not play as well as Vietnam in this match. The newspaper wrote: "The Vietnamese team put a lot of pressure in the second half, forcing Jordan to change their playing style. Before that, we played too monotonously and did not make a difference when the Vietnamese team had a tightly organized defense."
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"Jordan was really mentally unstable. The lack of confidence made us unable to finish the match and had to enter a penalty shootout. As a result, the team had to suffer defeat."
Reuters commented on every important detail of the match between Vietnam and Jordan, along with information about the post-match press conference of the two coaches. At the same time, Reuters commented: "Goalkeeper Dang Van Lam was the hero in the penalty shootout when he blocked Ahmed Salah's shot, while center-back Bui Tien Dung was cool in the final penalty shootout."
The magazine of the very famous TV channel Bein Sports reported with the title: “Jordan 1 Vietnam 1 (aet, 2-4 on penalties): Goalkeeper Van Lam plays the hero”. Bein Sports was also impressed with the Vietnamese goalkeeper Dang Van Lam. At the same time, they praised the achievements of the “Golden Dragons” at the 2019 Asian Cup.
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The New Paper said that Vietnam played very resiliently when they managed to squeeze through the "narrow door" even though they were previously considered by experts to be the weaker team; they did not forget to give praise to Cong Phuong when the Nghe An player seized the opportunity very well from Trong Hoang's assist.
Fox Sports Asia has a series of articles about the victory of the Vietnam team. The articles all affirm that the Vietnam team reaching the quarterfinals is a surprise of the 2019 Asian Cup, but the team deserves to continue after having a classy performance against Jordan.
FOX Sports also believes that Vietnamese football has made remarkable progress over the past year and has proven itself to be one of the eight strongest teams in Asia by winning the right to play in the quarter-finals of the 2019 Asian Cup.
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Reuters reported on the victory of the Vietnam team. |
The Korean newspaper Chosun mentioned the phrase "Coach Park Hang-seo's magic" that helped the Vietnamese team "transform".
"Unbelievable, Vietnam won against Jordan. Coach Park Hang-seo's magic even helped the Southeast Asian team play better than their opponent Jordan.
Despite being behind, the red-shirted warriors continuously pressured their opponents from the end of the first half and equalized early in the second half. Jordan was lucky not to concede a goal before being defeated at the 11m mark. Congratulations to Vietnam" - this newspaper commented.
After Thailand lost to China, the Vietnamese team is the last representative of Southeast Asia to remain in the 2019 Asian Cup. In the quarter-finals, Coach Park Hang-seo's team will meet the winner of the Japan-Saudi Arabia match at 6 p.m. on January 21.

5 notable highlights of the Vietnam - Jordan match
(Baonghean.vn) - Vietnam defeated Jordan in the first match of the Asian Cup Round of 16 to enter the quarterfinals in a worthy manner. Let's review the important highlights of this match.