Time's up! The Vietnam women's futsal team suffered a 0-2 defeat to Japan. Coach Nguyen Dinh Hoang's students officially stopped at the quarter-finals of the 2025 Asian futsal tournament.
Minute 39: Time is not in favor of the Vietnam women's futsal team players. Although power-play was deployed early, the players in red shirts have not scored any goals.
Minute 38: Goalkeeper Nene Inoue is continuously blocking shots from Vietnamese women's futsal players to help the home team maintain a 2-0 lead.
Minute 37: The Vietnam women's futsal team is continuously finishing. Thanh Ngan shot from the left corner but still could not beat Japanese goalkeeper Nene Inoue.
Minute 34: The ball was chaotic in front of the Japanese goal. It is a pity that the Vietnamese players could not finish accurately.
Minute 31: The Vietnam women's futsal team needs to concentrate when playing power-play. The Japanese player just had a situation where he stole the ball and shot the ball against the post.
Minute 28: Danger! The Japanese women's futsal team's shot hit the crossbar again. This time it's Mika Eguchi.
Minute 27: The Vietnam women's futsal team is still stuck in finding a way to approach Japan's goal. Coach Dinh Hoang's students can only hope for shots from a long distance.
Minute 24: The Vietnam women's futsal team conceded the second goal. Number 2 Van Anh lost the ball from midfield. The Japanese player won the ball and faced goalkeeper Thuy Linh. Number 9 Ryo Egawa did not miss the opportunity, finishing into an empty net to increase the score to 2-0 for Japan.
Minute 22: The Vietnam women's futsal team is starting the second half quite proactively. Coach Nguyen Dinh Hoang's students are the team controlling the game.
Minute 21: The second half begins.
The first half ended with a temporary 1-0 advantage for the Japanese women's futsal team.
Minute 20: The match was still tense. There were continuous tit-for-tat situations from players from both teams.
Minute 18: The Japanese team shoots dangerously in front of the goal. However, goalkeeper Thuy Linh still played focused and blocked Mika Eguchi's shot.
Minute 17: The Vietnam women's futsal team is pushing up their formation in the final minutes of the match. This surprising strategy has caused the Japanese players to retreat quite well behind the defensive formation to preserve the score.
Minute 15: The Japanese women's futsal team no longer maintains the same highipage as at the beginning of the match. However, coach Takehiro Suga's students are still controlling the game well on the field.
Minute 14: Tran Nguyet Vi fires a shot outside the penalty area. The ball went strong, forcing the goalkeeper of the Japanese women's futsal team to struggle to block it.
Minute 12: Danger! The Vietnam women's futsal team had a dangerous shot but Phuong Anh could not send the ball to the target.
Minute 11: Goalkeeper Thuy Linh is having to work continuously as Japanese strikers continuously launch dangerous finishing situations.
Minute 9: The Vietnam women's futsal team is still trying to "closely" the road to goalkeeper Thuy Linh's goal. On the other side of the front line, the Japanese women's futsal team is still fighting in an open attack in search of a double goal.
Minute 6: The number 6 from the Japanese side shot into the Vietnamese team's net but the goal was not recognized.
Minute 3: Goal!!! After many attacks, the Japanese women's futsal team opened the scoring when Phuong Anh put the ball into her own net after trying to block Kyoka Takahashi's shot. Japan women's futsal team leads 1-0.
Minute 2: The Japanese women's futsal team is creating great pressure on the Vietnamese team's goal. Consecutive finishing situations created by the blue team.
Minute 1: The Japanese futsal team quickly created pressure with a shot that hit the crossbar in the first minute.
10:00: The match begins.
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According to the competition schedule, the Vietnam women's futsal team will face the Japan women's futsal team in the quarter-finals of the 2025 Asian Futsal Championship.
Previously, in the group stage, coach Nguyen Dinh Hoang's team won the top spot in Group B. The "Golden Star Warriors" defeated Hong Kong (China) 5-3, the Philippines 3-0 and drew Iran 0-0.
On the other side, the team from the land of the rising sun defeated Indonesia 5-2, overcame Bahrain 3-2 but unexpectedly lost 1-3 to Thailand in the final match, thereby winning second place in Group C.
In this year's tournament, the Japanese women's futsal team has a very clear goal of winning the championship. They are also one of the top teams in Asia.
Japan has won the runner-up position twice in 2015 and 2018 when they both lost to Iran in the final. Therefore, this will be a huge challenge for Thanh Hang and her teammates.
