At 6:35 p.m. today (October 13), Vietnam team will have a match friendly with Uzbekistan at Dalian Stadium. This is a match that takes place in a closed stadium and does not count for FIFA points.
< p>That’s not why the team Vietnam team is not determined to win. Coach Troussier’s team wants to find a victory to “wash their face” after the previous defeat with a score of 0-2 against the Chinese team on October 10.
But the Vietnamese team has to face confronting an extremely scary enemy. According to past statistics, Vietnamese teams have never known victory against Central Asian representatives at all levels.
At the national team level, the Vietnamese team has ever faced against Uzbekistan in a friendly match in Hanoi in 2007. At that time, we failed with a score of 1-2. After that, the Golden Dragon also faced this opponent twice in the 2015 Asian Cup qualifiers and both suffered defeats with scores of 0-3 and 1-3.
At the U23 level football Vietnam lost 1-2 to U23 Uzbekistan in the final of the 2018 U23 Asian Championship in Changzhou. This is still one of the most memorable matches of U23 Vietnam in history. We have never been so close to winning the continental championship, but in the end we fell in extra time.
Previously in the M150 Cup friendly tournament in Thailand (the first tournament of coach Park Hang Seo (Vietnamese football) U23 Vietnam also lost 1-2 to U23 Uzbekistan. Furthermore, we had three draws in friendly matches with Uzbekistan in 2006, 2011 and 2016.
Meanwhile, Vietnam’s U19 team lost 0-4 to Uzbekistan in the friendly tournament at Thong Nhat Stadium in 2012. Most recently, the U17 Vietnam team, led by coach Hoang Anh Tuan, lost 0-1 to U17 Uzbekistan in the 2023 Asian U17 tournament.
Currently, the Uzbekistan team is ranked 75th on the FIFA rankings, 20 places higher than the Vietnamese team. That shows the superiority of coach Katenec’s army compared to the “Golden Star Warriors” at this time.
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