Nearly 2000 travelling Vietnamese fans had the rights to be delighted with their national team’s performance against New Zealand U-20. It should not be forgotten that this was the country\u2019s first ever game at an outdoor FIFA tournament.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve written a fantastic new chapter in the history of Vietnamese football,” captain Nguyen Quang Hai told FIFA.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n We\u2019re very proud of ourselves. It\u2019s an incredible result, but also a little disappointing because we would have loved to have taken all three points. To be completely honest, we\u2019re all feeling a bit frustrated.”<\/p>\n Vietnam attacked from the start, putting the Kiwis on the back foot. Despite missing influential defensive midfielder Bui Tien Dung due to an injury, this was a disciplined performance with the Southeast Asians looking to get forward all the time while pressing their opponents to deny them space.<\/p>\n Doan Van Thu and Ho Tan Tai pushed up to support the attack whenever possible. Dinh Thanh Binh, the team\u2019s number ten, took a little time to settle but once he did, he looks at ease on the world stage, pushing and probing.<\/p>\n Thanh Binh’s\u00a0turn in the area in the first half to lose his marker was a thing of beauty even if the shot was dragged wide.<\/p>\n Kiwi keeper Michael Woud was called into action twice in the space of a minute, first denying Doan Van Hau from distance, before scrambling to claw away Nguyen Quang Hai’s cheeky attempt direct from a corner.<\/p>\n However, the lack of clinical finishing means Vietnam U-20 cannot make the most out of their chances and have to be content with the 1 point.<\/p>\n New Zealand are third of Group E, while Vietnam are sitting on third. France lead the group after a thumping 3-0 victory against Honduras.<\/p>\n Vietnam face France in the next match, while New Zealand clash against Honduras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly 2000 travelling Vietnamese fans had the rights to be delighted with their national team’s performance against New Zealand U-20. It should not be forgotten that this was the country\u2019s first ever game at an outdoor FIFA tournament. “We\u2019ve written a fantastic new chapter in the history of Vietnamese football,” captain Nguyen Quang Hai told FIFA.com. We\u2019re very proud of ourselves. It\u2019s an incredible result, but also a little disappointing because we would have loved to have taken all three points. To be completely honest, we\u2019re all feeling a bit frustrated.” Vietnam attacked from the start, putting the Kiwis on the back foot. Despite missing influential defensive midfielder Bui Tien … Continue reading “Vietnam U-20 earn historic result against New Zealand U-20”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,40],"tags":[825,204,812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695"}],"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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}