Uzbekistan won the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship after beating Vietnam 2-1 after extra-time at the Changzhou Olympic Sports Centre on Saturday final.<\/p>\n
In a heavy snowing condition in China, it was Uzbekistan who took the lead eight minutes into the match when Rustamjon Ashurmatov headed home from Dostonbek Khamdamov\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n
The Southeast Asian side had recovered as Nguyen Quang Hai<\/a> struck a brilliant\u00a0free kick to level the score at 1-1\u00a0four minutes before halftime.<\/p>\n Uzbekistan continued to press, however, none of both sides were unable to score another goal in the regular time.<\/p>\n With just a minute remaining in extra-time, substitute\u00a0Andrey Sidorov volleyed home from close range to seal the dramatic title for the Uzbeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uzbekistan won the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship after beating Vietnam 2-1 after extra-time at the Changzhou Olympic Sports Centre on Saturday final. In a heavy snowing condition in China, it was Uzbekistan who took the lead eight minutes into the match when Rustamjon Ashurmatov headed home from Dostonbek Khamdamov\u2019s corner. The Southeast Asian side had recovered as Nguyen Quang Hai struck a brilliant\u00a0free kick to level the score at 1-1\u00a0four minutes before halftime. Uzbekistan continued to press, however, none of both sides were unable to score another goal in the regular time. With just a minute remaining in extra-time, substitute\u00a0Andrey Sidorov volleyed home from close range to seal the dramatic … Continue reading “Uzbekistan overcome Vietnam win AFC U-23 Championship in a dramatic final”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[692,882,105],"class_list":["post-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-2018-afc-u-23-championship","tag-uzbekistan","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683","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=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}