Vietnam\u00a0clinched a dramatic victory over Iraq in the penalty shootout to qualify for the historical semi-finals of the AFC U-23 Championship.<\/p>\n
It was the Vietnam team who took the lead with just 12 minutes on the clock after Nguyen Cong Phuong scored\u00a0inside the six-yard box.<\/p>\n
However, Iraq\u00a0leveled the result with a controversial penalty by striker Ayman Hussein before the half-hour mark.<\/p>\n
The game entered the\u00a0extra-time when neither side was able to net again in the remaining time of the 90 mins.<\/p>\n
Just four minutes into the first additional period, the Iraqis took the 2-1 lead with the header from Hussein.<\/p>\n
Vietnam, however, earned the equalize again in the 108th minute after\u00a0Nguyen Van Toan fired home.<\/p>\n
The drama continued\u00a0when Ha Duc Chinh put Vietnam 3-2 ahead, before\u00a0Alaa Mhawi lashed a powerful shot in at the near post\u00a0with four minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
In the penalty shootout,\u00a0Vietnamese goalkeeper Bui Tien Dung denied a kick from Iraqi side, while all five Vietnamese players were successful with their finishes and sent their side through to a semi-final clash against Qatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vietnam\u00a0clinched a dramatic victory over Iraq in the penalty shootout to qualify for the historical semi-finals of the AFC U-23 Championship. It was the Vietnam team who took the lead with just 12 minutes on the clock after Nguyen Cong Phuong scored\u00a0inside the six-yard box. However, Iraq\u00a0leveled the result with a controversial penalty by striker Ayman Hussein before the half-hour mark. The game entered the\u00a0extra-time when neither side was able to net again in the remaining time of the 90 mins. Just four minutes into the first additional period, the Iraqis took the 2-1 lead with the header from Hussein. Vietnam, however, earned the equalize again in the 108th minute … Continue reading “Vietnam edge out Iraq on penalties to reach AFC U-23 Championship last four”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[692,415,105],"class_list":["post-10544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-2018-afc-u-23-championship","tag-iraq","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}