With home advantage, plus having to face a much lower-rated opponent, Ho Chi Minh City Youth, Phu Dong Ninh Binh club quickly took the lead to attack right after the opening whistle.
Despite the absence of coach Nguyen Viet Thang on the bench, Phu Dong Ninh Binh still easily imposed an attacking kick and soon opened the score. Right at the 10th minute, from the penalty kick the corner of Hoang Duc hung the ball into the penalty area for Van Thanh to raise the head to open the score for the home team.
Just 3 minutes later, the ancient capital team doubled the gap. Receiving the ball from his teammate, Dinh Thanh Binh fired a long-range shot that sent the ball into the Ho Chi Minh City Youth net for the second time.
Early in creating a safe gap, Phu Dong Ninh Binh played quite leisurely. On the other side of the front line, Ho Chi Minh City Youth also did not have many opportunities to organize and launch attacks towards the goalkeeper Dang Van Lam's goal.
Completely controlling the game in the remaining time, it was only a matter of time before Phu Dong Ninh Binh scored the third goal. From a pass from his teammate in the 77th minute, young striker Quoc Viet rushed up and finished decisively to increase the score to 3-0 for Ninh Binh. This was also the goal that sealed the 3-0 victory for Phu Dong Ninh Binh.
With the second-placed team Truong Tuoi Binh Phuoc having only a 0-0 draw on the field of PVF-CAND, Phu Dong Ninh Binh has officially won the 2024-2025 First Division championship 3 rounds early. After 17 matches, Phu Dong Ninh Binh has 49 points after 16 wins and 1 draw.
Phu Dong Ninh Binh still has 3 matches left, while Truong Tuoi Binh Phuoc has only 2 matches left and the gap between the two teams is 8 points. Thus, the remaining goal of Truong Tuoi Binh Phuoc is still a ticket to the play-off to be promoted to V.League when they are still 7 points ahead of the PVF-CAND chasing team and have played 1 more match than their opponents.
