With a 5-star victory over Nepal, Vietnam futsal team soon won a ticket to the 2024 Asian Futsal Championship.
Vietnam vs Nepal futsal results - With a 5-0 victory over Nepal, the futsal team officially won a ticket to the 2024 Asian Futsal Championship, even though there is still 1 match left to play.
Vietnam Futsal is too strong for Nepal
Before this match, the futsal team was predicted to win easily against Nepal, the team that lost 1-5 to Korea in the opening match. And Chau Doan Phat's goal in the 2nd minute was a signal for an easy victory for coach Diego Giustozzi and his team.
In this match, goalkeeper Ho Van Y was given a rest, but his replacement did not have much work to do. In the 8th minute, Duong Ngoc Linh doubled the gap for Vietnam futsal, and before the end of the first half, the score was raised to 3-0 with a close-range tap-in after a cross from Chau Doan Phat.
Right at the beginning of the second half, Tu Minh Quang raised the score to 4-0 for Vietnam futsal. Coach Giustozzi's students showed their determination to win big when playing powerplay when there were only 9 seconds left in the match and were rewarded with a goal that sealed the 5-0 victory. Chau Doan Phat, the best player of the match, completed his double when there was only... 1 second left in the match.
Thus, after 2 matches, Vietnam is leading Group D with 6 points and a goal difference of 11-1. Also with 6 points, but only a goal difference of 10-2, Korea is ranked second. Thus, both Vietnam and Korea have soon won tickets to the 2024 AFC Futsal Championship. The final match between the two teams on October 11 will only determine the top team.
In the first round, while the Vietnamese futsal team crushed Mongolian futsal with a tennis score (6-1), the Nepalese futsal team also suffered a heavy defeat of 1-5 against the host team, South Korea. It is not too difficult to see that in this group, Nepal's futsal level is only equal to Mongolia's, and the race for the top spot will be a competition between Vietnamese futsal and Korean futsal.
On the current FIFA futsal rankings, Nepal futsal is ranked 127th, which is even below Mongolian futsal (122), and of course far behind Vietnam (39).
The Asian futsal qualifiers have 8 groups, and the first and second place teams from each group will advance to the finals taking place in Thailand from April 17 to April 28, 2024.
