Thousands of fans spread out mats to sleep outside in the cold all night, waiting to buy tickets to watch Vietnam play Singapore

Because I love the Vietnamese team so much

According to our records, on the night of December 26 and early morning of December 27, there were thousands of fans standing outside Viet Tri Stadium (Phu Tho) waiting to buy tickets. The North is very cold, but the cold weather does not cool down the audience’s love of football. Many fans said that they have been lining up all night and day since 6 today, even though they knew that tickets would be sold directly at 8 a.m. on December 27. Some spectators also burned firewood for warmth.

Vietnam is so good and lucky

Let’s talk about the first leg of the semi-finals on the evening of December 26, team The Singapore team caused many difficulties for the Vietnamese team, proving that they carefully studied coach Kim Sang-sik’s team. But we were still the final winning team, thanks to our superiority in terms of personnel and physical strength.

Before the Vietnamese team scored a goal, the Singapore team created a lot of turmoil towards goalkeeper Nguyen Dinh Trieu’s goal. In particular, there was a situation where Dinh Trieu reacted unbelievably, pushing the ball to save with his fingertips, after Suparno’s shot on the Singapore side in the 68th minute.

Before that, Singapore was also the team that kept the ball more and finished more. In particular, they almost locked spearhead Nguyen Xuan Son on the Vietnamese team, separating this striker from the remaining positions. This shows that Singapore has carefully studied the playing style of the Vietnamese team, they realize the importance of Nguyen Xuan Son. They understand that they must neutralize this player in order to maintain the home team’s net. Reality on the field shows that Singapore has succeeded with its intention: neutralizing Nguyen Xuan Son at one end of the field and organizing lightning attacks at the other end of the field, attacking directly at the weak point of lacking money. Strong and muscular interception defense of the Vietnamese team.

The Lion Island football team was successful until about the 75th minute, when Tien Linh, after entering the field for a few minutes, began to “heat up”. From the moment Tien Linh warmed up, instead of only having to watch out for Nguyen Xuan Son, Singapore had to pay attention to the two powerful strikers of the Vietnamese team: Tien Linh and Xuan Son.

This detail reflects that the quality of the Vietnamese team’s personnel is slightly better than that of its opponents. We have enough people to solve the problem. When a certain person is disabled, we will have other personnel to replace or supplement, thereby having more attack options.

Not many teams in this year’s tournament are lucky enough to have two very high quality strikers like Tien Linh and Xuan Son, like the Vietnamese team has. Singapore lost because they did not have enough people to stop all the spearheads of the Vietnamese team. In addition, Singapore also lost because the physical strength of the Vietnamese players was better than the Singapore players in the last minutes. This is a very different detail between the two teams Vietnam and Singapore compared to many years ago. Previously, Singaporean players were famous for being the strongest in Southeast Asia. But now, everything has changed. The Singapore team with many older players, especially the group of key players such as Shawal Anuar, Faris Ramli and Haris Harun, easily ran out of breath in the last minutes.

Meanwhile, the Vietnamese team with a group of players are in the prime of their careers, very energetic and have a lot of experience in international competition. This experience, this toughness helps us patiently wait for the opportunity until the very last minute, then deliver the finishing blow to the opponent in the final period of the match.

The victory just won may not have been so spectacular and spectacular, but the important thing was that the victory just mentioned almost brought Coach Kim Sang-sik’s team into the final, because the 2-goal difference is quite safe when they reach the final. We get to play the second leg at home. At the same time, losing in the last minutes can easily destroy the will of Singapore players before the semi-final second leg.