U23 Vietnam defeated host U23 Saudi Arabia with a score of 1-0, thereby winning the top spot in Group A with 9 absolute points. With U23 Saudi Arabia, they officially stopped in the group stage when they only won 3rd place in Group A.
In this match, the U23 Vietnam defense is predicted to face many difficulties when in the U23 Saudi Arabia squad there is the name Musab Al-Juwayr, the captain midfielder with an extremely creative playing style of the home team.
More notably, Musab Al-Juwayr is valued by Transfermarkt at about 4 million euros, the highest among players participating in the 2026 AFC U23 Championship Finals. This number is even higher than the total estimated value of the entire U23 Vietnam squad (valued at about 3.13 million euros).
Before the match against U23 Vietnam, Musab Al-Juwayr was a very prominent player in the U23 Saudi Arabia shirt. This player was the author of the assist leading to the only goal that brought 3 points for U23 Saudi Arabia against U23 Kyrgyzstan.
In the 2-3 defeat to U23 Jordan, Musab Al-Juwayr also contributed 1 assist and 1 goal for his team. It can be seen that Musab Al-Juwayr is deeply imprinted in the goals of U23 Saudi Arabia in this year's AFC U23 Championship Finals.
Musab Al-Juwayr in the early moments of the match had many situations of combining with Abdulaziz Al Elewai to create a quite impressive attacking duo of U23 Saudi Arabia.
While Musab Al-Juwayr often had central attacks, on the sidelines, Abdulaziz Al Elewai also caused no small difficulties for the U23 Vietnam defense.
However, with extremely good cover and support in the defense, U23 Vietnam then played completely discreetly without the above names having the opportunity to approach the area in front of the goal. Hieu Minh had a fairly impressive match when he controlled the defense, managing the position well.
And when there are times when the defense loses focus, there is still the excellence of goalkeeper Trung Kien when he goes in and out reasonably, neutralizing all the opponent's shots.
According to statistics, U23 Saudi Arabia made 25 shots towards the U23 Vietnam goal, but most of them were "lucky shots" or inaccurate. A few close-range shots were blocked by goalkeeper Trung Kien.
Meanwhile, with only 3 finishing situations, U23 Vietnam scored 1 goal for themselves thanks to Dinh Bac, thereby getting a 1-0 victory overall against host U23 Saudi Arabia.
