AFC honors two ‘super products’ of U23 Vietnam in the 2024 U23 Asian group stage

Before the U23 Asian quarter-finals, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) selected the 8 best goals in the group stage to honor. Notably, U23 Vietnam had 2 goals nominated by AFC to the list of best goals in the group stage.

The first is Nguyen Van Tung’s goal scored in the match between U23 Vietnam and U23 Kuwait. “A goal worthy of breaking the deadlock, Nguyen Van Truong’s cross-defense pass eliminated three Kuwaiti defenders and the player ran perfectly to finish with the outside of his head,” AFC commented on U23 Vietnam’s first goal at the tournament.

The second goal of U23 Vietnam appearing on this list is Khuat Van Khang’s goal in the 39th minute in the match against U23 Malaysia. Commenting on this goal, AFC wrote: “Just when the first half of the match seemed to end without a goal, Khuat Van Khang came up with a solution for U23 Vietnam by shooting the ball with his left foot into the top corner. goal, defeating Malaysian goalkeeper Azim Al Amin”.

In addition to the two goals of the Vietnamese duo, AFC also honored the goals of Ahmed Al Rawi (Qatar), Ruslan Khailoev (Tajikistan), Aiman ​​Yahya (Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Al Yazidi (Qatar) , Alibek Davronov (Uzbekistan) and Witan Sulaeman (Indonesia).

U23 Vietnam also had 3 other goals scored by Bui Vi Hao (2 goals) and Vo Hoang Minh Khoa (1 goal). Striker Bui Vi Hao scored a double in the win over Kuwait U23 when coming from the bench, thereby joining the group of players scoring the most goals in the group stage, only 1 goal less than the first group. The names leading the list right now are Abdullah Radif, Ayman Yahya of defending champion U23 Saudi Arabia and Lee Young-jun U23 Korea with 3 goals/player.

The U23 Vietnam team excellently won tickets to the quarterfinals after two wins against U23 Kuwait and U23 Malaysia. Hoang Anh Tuan and his team closed the group stage with 6 points after 3 matches, behind U23 Uzbekistan. U23 Vietnam’s opponent in the quarter-finals is U23 Iraq, the opponent who lost to us in the quarter-finals of U23 Asia 2018. The match between the two teams will take place at 0:30, early morning on April 27 (According to time). Vietnam) on the stadium Al Janoub.

Khanh Kieu