{"id":21791,"date":"2020-01-14T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:48:35","slug":"vietnam-on-the-brink-after-draw-with-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/14\/vietnam-on-the-brink-after-draw-with-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam on the Brink After Draw With Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GianChansricha1\"><strong>Gian Chansrichawla<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Football Tribe SEA Editor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam were left precariously on the brink heading into the final round of the AFC U23 Championships group stage after playing out their second 0-0 draw of the tournament, this time with Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Park Hang-Seo&#8217;s side, which reached the finals of the tournaments last edition back in 2018, was expected to do impressive things at the Chang Arena in Buriram. However, having failed to score a goal after 180 minutes of football, things are looking worrisome heading into their final clash with North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing less than a win will do for Vietnam on Thursday and will need to hope that Jordan and the UAE don&#8217;t draw in their game to avoid a potentially nerve-wracking tiebreaker scenario, which could come down to goal difference if things can&#8217;t be settled on the side&#8217;s head to head record.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam will need their relatively experienced campaigners, like Nguyen Quang Hai and Nguyen Tien Linh, to step up in the final game and end the side&#8217;s goal drought if they wish to keep their hopes of appearing at the 2020 Summer Olympics alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Chansrichawla Football Tribe SEA Editor &nbsp; Vietnam were left precariously on the brink heading into the final round of the AFC U23 Championships group stage after playing out their second 0-0 draw of the tournament, this time with Jordan. Park Hang-Seo&#8217;s side, which reached the finals of the tournaments last edition back in 2018, was expected to do impressive things at the Chang Arena in Buriram. However, having failed to score a goal after 180 minutes of football, things are looking worrisome heading into their final clash with North Korea. Nothing less than a win will do for Vietnam on Thursday and will need to hope that Jordan and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/14\/vietnam-on-the-brink-after-draw-with-jordan\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Vietnam on the Brink After Draw With Jordan&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":21801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1973],"tags":[1846,95,105,1977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791"}],"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=21791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21800,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions\/21800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}