Nepal women's team
The Nepal women's team (ranked 101th in the world) is not a strange opponent for the Vietnam women's team (ranked 34th in the world). In April, coach Mai Duc Chung's team faced this team in the 2024 Paris Olympics qualifiers.
In both home and away matches against Nepal, Thanh Nha and her teammates showed their superiority when they won with the scores of 5-1 and 2-0.
In terms of the history of the confrontation, the advantage belongs to the Vietnam women's team. However, coach Mai Duc Chung highly appreciated this opponent before the day of the 19th ASIAD: "We cannot be subjective because the other team has good physical strength and good personnel. I appreciate their attacking striker. She runs very fast, well, like a male player."
To prepare for the 19th ASIAD, the Nepal women's team brought a force with pillars such as Amisha Karki, Deepa Shahi, Saru Limbu, Preeti Rai, Pooja Rana and Geeta Rana.
Head coach Balgopal Maharjan shared before the tournament: "We have prepared very carefully for ASIAD 19. However, the whole team has not played any international friendly matches before this Congress".
The captain of the Nepal women's team affirmed that the goal of this team is to try to get good results against Japan and Vietnam, while aiming to defeat neighboring Bangladesh.
Bangladesh women's team
Among the 3 opponents that will face in Group D of the 19th ASIAD women's football tournament, the Bangladesh women's team (ranked 142nd in the world) is a team unfamiliar to the Vietnam women's team. The two teams have never met before.
This is also the first time the women's team of this country has participated in an Asian Games. List of 22 players brought to Korea (China) by Saiful Bari Titu coaches includes rupana Chakma, Sathi Biswas, S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
This force is mostly made up of players aged 18-19, with little experience in competition, even in domestic tournaments. Therefore, the goal of the Nepal women's team at ASIAD 19 is to compete and accumulate experience against stronger opponents.
Evaluating the group, captain Sabina Khatun said: "I cheered for Japan at the 2023 Women's World Cup and was very excited to face this top team in Asia. I also watched the performance of the Vietnam women's team at the recent World Cup. This is a very strong team. We will play well against those two opponents and are determined to win against the Nepal women's team".
Japan women's team
Considering the general situation of Group D, the Vietnam women's team will find it very difficult to compete for the top spot with the Japan women's team (ranked 8th in the world). The team from the land of the rising sun is one of the most impressive Asian women's teams in the 2023 World Cup when reaching the quarter-finals.
However, at ASIAD 19, they only sent the B team to participate. One of the reasons is that the ASIAD is not a tournament within the official competition system of the World Football Federation (FIFA), so clubs have the right not to "release" players.
However, coach Mai Duc Chung also admitted that although Japan only has a young squad, the level of this team is still completely superior to Vietnam.
According to the list published by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the squad at the Congress in China only has 1 player who has just participated in the 2023 Women's World Cup, striker Remina Chiba.
Most of the squad participating in the 19th ASIAD is made up of players from the Japan U20 women's team, along with some experienced players competing domestically. In addition, they only called up 1 player from abroad to compete.
In history, Vietnam has never won against the Japanese women's team. Therefore, it is difficult for Thanh Nha and her teammates to create a surprise against this opponent.
According to the schedule, the Vietnam women's team will meet Nepal (15:00 on September 22), Bangladesh (15:00 on September 25-) and Japan (15:00 on September 28).
