Trailing by 2 goals in the first half of the semi-final match against Australia, with captain Pham Duc Hoa unable to play due to injury. Everything seemed to be against the Vietnamese futsal team as we played rather erratically and did not create any notable opportunities in the first 20 minutes.
Tran Thai Huy and his teammates entered the second half with a lot of pressure on their shoulders. Meanwhile, their opponents Australia played very comfortably and started to defend tightly. But the indomitable fighting spirit of the Vietnamese futsal team was something that the representative of Oceania football could not have anticipated.
And then the most "classic" score chase took place. Minh Quang scored, Da Hai and Thinh Phat scored twice, the Vietnamese futsal team exploded with a ticket to the 2024 Southeast Asian futsal final, something that Vietnamese futsal could do after 12 years after the 2012 tournament also in Thailand. This is the third time the Vietnamese futsal team has entered the regional futsal final.
Following this match throughout, the writer clearly remembers the emotions that left-footed Tran Thai Huy once brought to the Japanese futsal team's net in the extra time of the quarter-final match of the 2016 Asian Futsal Championship. Thai Huy's equalizer 4-4 brought the match to a penalty shootout, and the Vietnamese futsal team then defeated the "big guy" Japan, entered the semi-finals and also won a ticket to the FIFA Futsal World Cup. A match that the commentator at that time had to exclaim: "Unbelievable" to talk about that "classic" performance of the Vietnamese futsal team. After 8 years, that emotion seemed to be recreated!
Having followed many social networking sites about sports, especially Vietnamese football, after the match, the writer saw many articles and images appearing to congratulate the victory of the Vietnamese futsal team. In particular, each congratulatory message emphasized the emotions that this match brought. The emotions that people often jokingly say "the strange emotions that only football can bring".
Obviously, the fact that the Vietnamese futsal team defeated the Thai futsal team in the final round of the group stage, and now created an "unbelievable" match against Australia, this must be a positive impact on Vietnamese football fans in general, and the Vietnamese futsal team in particular, before the final match.
Once again, congratulations to the Vietnam futsal team!
