The former Singaporean player was choked up with the Thai defense, worried about Nguyen Xuan Son

“It was great to watch both teams play beautifully attacking in the dramatic AFF Cup 2024 second leg final, but the Thai team’s defense…”, Rhysh Roshan Rai wrote a status line implying disappointment with The defense of Thai defenders on social network

Rhysh Roshan Rai’s assessment was extremely correct, because the Thai defense once again made a fatal mistake in the crucial moment of the match in the 82nd minute, when midfielder Pansa Hemviboon scored an own goal to help the Vietnamese team equalize the score. 2-2 and took the lead again 4-3.

Previously, after being behind early, the Thai team was able to equalize 1-1 thanks to a beautiful goal by Ben Davis scored after a mistake by midfielder Doan Ngoc Tan. The drama increased in the second half when Supachok Sarachat scored a beautiful long-range shot to increase the score to 2-1 for the Thai team in the 64th minute.

However, before this beautiful goal, the Thai players acted unkindly by not returning the ball to the Vietnamese players, after the previous situation they proactively kicked the ball out of bounds from Situation where a player of the home team is injured. This situation caused intense controversy. But in the end, Korean referee Hyung-Jin Ko still recognized the goal.

Journalist Deepanraj Ganesan of the newspaper The Straits Times asked the question: “Should the Thai player return the ball? But it was a great goal. So dramatic.”

However, after this situation, the Thai team only played with 10 people when midfielder Weerathep Pomphan received his second yellow card and left the field. The situation created a turning point for the match, when the Vietnamese team took advantage of many attacks and found the equalizer at 2-2 when striker Pham Tuan Hai kicked the ball strongly in the penalty area. causing defender Pansa Hemviboon to awkwardly score an own goal.

This 2-2 equalizer helped the Vietnamese team maintain their morale until the long minutes of extra time. In the 90+20 minute, Nguyen Hai Long scored to end all efforts of the Thai team, raising the score to 3-2 and winning the final score 5-3 after 2 final matches, worthy of being crowned champion. champion AFF Cup 2024.

Page All Things Thai Football Thai football’s social network X also expressed: “Congratulations to Vietnam. They deserve to win.”

Meanwhile, journalist Matthew Mohan of the newspaper CNA also affirmed: “The Vietnamese team deserves to win the AFF Cup. It’s just a pity that Nguyen Xuan Son is so seriously injured. Hopefully he will recover soon.”