Both the U19 Vietnam women's team and the U19 Myanmar women's team understand that a victory in this encounter will bring a big advantage. Therefore, the two teams entered the match with great determination.
Entering the match at Thong Nhat Stadium (HCMC), U19 Myanmar women's team made the Vietnamese audience worried when they had the opportunity to score their first goal.
In the first minute, Sandar Lin escaped to the left wing and fired a cross-angle shot. Fortunately, goalkeeper Le Thi Thu was alert and excellently pushed the ball away, saving a goal for the home team.
The escape situation helped the Vietnam U19 women's team play more focused afterwards, but it must be admitted that the Myanmar U19 women's team is qualified, demonstrated good tactics as well as a solid physical foundation, so they are not inferior to the host.
The situation on the field was quite balanced with the tit-for-tat moves towards each other's goalkeepers. In the first 30 minutes, the two teams organized the match quite tightly, so there were few opportunities created.
However, the turning point of the match came in the 35th minute when Mr. Okiyama Masahiko's students were awarded a direct free kick from the left wing, about 20m from the Myanmar U19 women's goal.
Thuy Linh fired a beautiful shot, sending the ball into the top corner, scoring the opening goal for the home team.
Two minutes later, the home team almost doubled the advantage if Thu Trang had successfully finished. However, the U19 Vietnam women's team also scored the second goal in the 40th minute.
From a long serve by his teammate, Thanh Hieu accelerated strongly and broke into the penalty area, before firing a cross-angle shot that defeated goalkeeper Thu Zar Aung.
In the second half, U19 Myanmar women's team tried to speed up the match in hopes of finding an equalizer, but U19 Vietnam women's team organized the match well when the defense played focused, so it was not difficult to get cards, effectively cutting long passes for the strikers above to compete for speed.
For their part, Mr. Okiyama Masahiko's students also deployed quickly when they had the opportunity to attack. However, the U19 Vietnam women's team did not score any more goals in the second half of the match.
In the first match of Group A, the Laos U19 women's team beat the Timor-Leste U19 women's team with a score of 2-0.
In the remaining group, the U19 Thai women's team and the U19 Malaysia women's team also had big wins with scores of 6-0 and 4-1 against the U19 Indonesian women's team and the U19 Cambodian women's team.
