Vietnam – Uzbekistan futsal team (9pm today): Waiting for a miracle

*The quarter-final match of the 2024 Asian Futsal Championship between the Vietnam and Uzbekistan futsal teams takes place at 9pm tonight (April 24, Vietnam time), at the Bangkok Arena (Thailand). Dan Tri will report this match online.

The winning team in the quarter-finals of the 2024 Asian futsal tournament will qualify for the World Cup finals, taking place in September this year.

In the past, Uzbekistan won the Asian futsal runner-up position four times, in 2001, 2006, 2010 and 2016. They won third place in the Asian tournament five other times, in 2005, 2007, 2014. , 2018 and 2022. Overall, Uzbekistan is Asia’s leading futsal scene.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Uzbekistan is rated higher than the Vietnamese futsal team. However, coach Diego Giustozzi (Argentine) spoke up: “Uzbekistan is a candidate to win the tournament. Their technique, physical strength, and tactics are all very good.”

“However, the Vietnamese futsal team often plays better when they meet teams that play fairly, openly, and tend to attack like Thailand and Uzbekistan. We have confidence and goals. If we defeat Uzbekistan, the Vietnamese futsal team will enter the World Cup finals for the third time,” coach Diego Giustozzi added.

The advantage of the Vietnamese futsal team in the upcoming quarter-final match is psychological advantage. If they lose to Uzbekistan, the team’s chance to enter the World Cup finals under coach Diego Giustozzi is still there.

Because Uzbekistan is the host team of the 2024 World Cup finals, if this team reaches the semi-finals of the Asian tournament, this continent will have another ticket to the World Cup.

If the Vietnamese futsal team loses to Uzbekistan in the quarterfinals, all four losing teams in the quarterfinals will compete in the play-off round (if the Vietnamese futsal team wins against Uzbekistan, AFC will not need to organize a play-off round). off).

At that time, the Vietnamese futsal team will face the losing team in the quarter-final match between Iran and Kyrgyzstan in the first play-off round.

Winning the first play-off round, the Vietnamese futsal team will play in the second play-off round (meeting one of the four teams Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Thailand or Iraq). Passing the second play-off round, we will have a ticket to the World Cup.