Vietnam is considered the "Portugal of Asia"; Ronaldo missed a penalty

Defeating Jordan, Vietnam is considered "Portugal of Asia"

After the thrilling penalty shootout victory over a much stronger opponent, Jordan, many fans began to associate the Vietnamese team with Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal on their journey to becoming the European champion at EURO 2016.

At EURO 2016, Portugal seemed to have been eliminated from the tournament right from the group stage after drawing three consecutive group stage matches against much weaker opponents Iceland, Austria and Hungary. Ronaldo and his teammates finished third in the group and only advanced thanks to the "save" ticket given to one of the four third-placed teams with the best records.

In the round of 16, Europe's Brazil was not rated as highly as Croatia with its strong army. However, coach Fernando Santos' students still played resiliently and dragged the match into extra time. Ricardo Quaresma was the hero with the "golden" goal that helped Portugal advance to the quarterfinals.

Portugal then successively overcame other strong opponents to become champions for the first time at the EURO finals, they are the only champions with only one victory in 90 minutes of play, the rest are draws and wins after extra time or penalties. The Vietnamese team has also only won one match in the group stage against Yemen.

Vietnam is the first team to try VAR at the 2019 Asian Cup

According to the announcement of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the video assistant referee (VAR) will be used in the 2019 Asian Cup starting from the quarter-finals. According to the draw, the Vietnamese team will meet the Japanese team in the first quarter-final match taking place at 8:00 p.m. on January 24.

Thus, Vietnam and Japan will be the first teams to participate in a match with VAR in this year's tournament. This is also the first time Park Hang Seo and his team have this experience, while Japan already knew VAR very well at the 2018 World Cup.

At the 2018 World Cup, VAR helped correct 16 wrong decisions and received praise from FIFA President Gianni Infantino: “VAR makes football cleaner. Thanks to VAR, the rate of correct decisions by referees has increased from 95% to 99.32%”. Therefore, AFC has high hopes that VAR will have a positive effect at the 2019 Asian Cup.

Missed the appointment with the Vietnam team,Saudi Arabia coach resigns

Immediately after the 0-1 loss to Japan, coach Juan Antonio Pizzi decided to resign from his position as head coach of the Saudi Arabian team. The Argentine coach shared with the press: "My work with the Saudi Arabian team is over. No one has told me about a contract extension, and I still do not know what challenges await me."

Pizzi took charge of Saudi Arabia in 2017. He helped Saudi Arabia make a splash by beating Mohamed Salah's Egypt 2-1 at the 2018 World Cup, but that victory was not enough to get them past the group stage. At the Asian Cup, Saudi Arabia advanced to the round of 16 with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss.

Ronaldo missed the penalty, Juve still easily won the match

Juventus, who only had to host the bottom team Chievo in round 20 of Serie A, had no trouble winning 3-0. Three goals were scored by Douglas Costa, Emre Can and Daniele Rugani. This was the first time all three players had scored in the 2018/19 season. Meanwhile, main striker Cristiano Ronaldo had a lackluster day. He even missed a penalty.

With the win, Juventus continued to consolidate their leading position on the rankings by maintaining a 9-point gap with the team behind Napoli, while Chievo could not improve their bottom position with only 8 points after 20 rounds.

Meanwhile, AC Milan had an explosive 11 minutes in the final stages of the match against Genoa to win 2-0. With this result, AC Milan has 34 points, officially entering the top 4 after 20 rounds.

Barca unexpectedly welcomes new player Boateng

A few days ago, Kevin-Prince Boateng hinted at the possibility of leaving Sassuolo in an interview. But at that time, there was no information about the team the 31-year-old player planned to join. Today, the news was suddenly announced to fans.

On its homepage, Barca announced that it had successfully borrowed Kevin-Prince Boateng from Sassuolo. The loan agreement will last until the end of the season. Barca did not disclose any further information regarding the cost of borrowing the player.

But according to ESPN, Barca must pay a loan fee of 1 million euros to Sassuolo. In addition, the contract also has an agreement to buy for 8 million euros at the end of the season. At Camp Nou, Boateng will be a strategic reserve option in the attack of coach Ernesto Valverde after Barca parted ways with young talent Munir.

Real Madrid plot to "steal" Bernardo Silva from Pep

Don Balon announced that President Perez is trying to steal Bernardo Silva from Pep Guardiola, as Luka Modric is likely to leave Bernabeu to join Inter Milan at the end of the season, and Isco is not creating trust.

The Croatian midfielder's departure will leave a huge void in midfield, and in the eyes of the White House boss, Bernardo Silva is the ideal replacement.

The Portuguese midfielder has enjoyed a commendable 2018/19 campaign with Man City so far, scoring five goals and providing six assists in 22 Premier League appearances.

Silva also contributed 2 goals for Man City in the Champions League this year, becoming one of Pep Guardiola's key players, with the context of guardian Kevin de Bruyne being injured.

According to Don Balon, the Vultures may have to spend up to 100 million pounds to be able to own Silva.