Coach Giustozzi.Diego Raul shared in the press conference after the match: “I am satisfied with the performance of my students. The whole team defended well in 4-on-4 situations. The Vietnamese futsal team was in control. Good posture, creating more advantages in the first half.
If the players did better in the opportunities created, it could make a difference in the score. In the second half, Uzbekistan used a 5-man game to attack but we still controlled the situation.”
Coach Giustozzi Diego Raul affirmed that the Vietnamese futsal team still has a chance to participate in the World Cup (Photo: AFC).
“I want the team to understand that we did well against Uzbekistan. It is important to know that this is a team that regularly participates in the futsal World Cup, and is often present in matches that dispute the continent’s rankings.
We tried our best and completed the task well today. If the team continues to play like this, it will defeat Kyrgyzstan in the next play-off match,” the Argentine strategist emphasized.
“We lost to Uzbekistan but the tournament is not over yet. The Vietnam futsal team has 2 more matches so the opportunity to compete for tickets to the 2024 Futsal World Cup is still there. The important thing now is to recover both physically and mentally. .
Opponent Kyrgyzstan plays at 4:00 p.m. while we play at 9:00 p.m., so they have more time to rest than us,” coach Diego Giustozzi said.
The Vietnamese futsal team unfortunately lost 1-2 to Uzbekistan (Photo: AFC).
In the quarter-finals of the 2024 Asian Futsal Championship taking place in Thailand on the evening of April 24 against Uzbekistan, the Vietnamese futsal team opened the scoring thanks to Thinh Phat in the 16th minute. However, two goals from Tulkinov and Juraev helped Uzbekistan come back. line win 2-1.
Not reaching the semi-finals of the 2024 Asian Cup, the Vietnamese futsal team still cannot return home, because they still have to compete in the play-off round to compete for tickets to the World Cup. Giustozzi and his team will meet Kyrgystan in the play-off semi-finals (April 26).
The winner of this match will meet the winner of the match between Iraq and Afghanistan in the play-off final (April 28). The team that wins the play-off round will win tickets to the 2024 World Cup, a tournament held in Uzbekistan from September 6 to October 14.
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