Vietnam beat Thailand in the penalty shootout following the goalless draw in the regular time at the semi-final of the\u00a02018 Japan-ASEAN friendly tournament in Miyazaki, Japan.<\/p>\n
Vietnam U-16 claimed the top spot of Group D with 4 points in two matches. Meanwhile, title favourite\u00a0also took the lead in Group C with big wins against Singapore and Brunei.<\/p>\n
Both Vietnam and Thailand have been familiar with their opponents’ tactics, since the regional rivals squared off\u00a0in the final of AFF U-15 Championship<\/a> last July. The Young Golden Stars then earned the title after winning the penalty shootout.<\/p>\n In this game, Thailand U-16 began to take control with their aggressive attack line but failed to convert any of the\u00a0opportunity into a goal.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0Vietnam U-16 strengthened their defending and threatened\u00a0the opponents with wave of attacks.<\/p>\n However, both sides missed the chance to break the deadlock, and\u00a0the game ended with a goalless draw in the regular time,\u00a0forcing the semi-final to enter the dreaded penalty shootout.<\/p>\n In the penalty shootout, Vietnam’s goalkeeper Duy Dung managed to block the opponent’s three penalties to help his side win 5-4 win.<\/p>\n Vietnam will face Indonesia, who earned a shocking victory against hosts Japan in the other semi, in the tournament’s final on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vietnam beat Thailand in the penalty shootout following the goalless draw in the regular time at the semi-final of the\u00a02018 Japan-ASEAN friendly tournament in Miyazaki, Japan. Vietnam U-16 claimed the top spot of Group D with 4 points in two matches. Meanwhile, title favourite\u00a0also took the lead in Group C with big wins against Singapore and Brunei. Both Vietnam and Thailand have been familiar with their opponents’ tactics, since the regional rivals squared off\u00a0in the final of AFF U-15 Championship last July. The Young Golden Stars then earned the title after winning the penalty shootout. In this game, Thailand U-16 began to take control with their aggressive attack line but … Continue reading “Vietnam defeat Thailand in penalty shootout in Japan-ASEAN U-16 friendly tournament”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[68,105],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-thailand","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","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=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}