Currently leading Group B in men's football at the 33rd SEA Games after a 4-1 victory over U22 Laos, with the same 3 points but ranked above U22 Vietnam thanks to a better goal difference.
The confrontation between the two teams on the afternoon of December 11 is considered a "group final" to find the group winner with a ticket to the semi-finals.
In fact, as long as the match ended in a draw, both U22 Malaysia and U22 Vietnam would continue together. At that time, U22 Malaysia will be the group winner, while coach Kim Sang-sik's students will be the second-placed team with the best results and both will be named in the semi-finals.
However, true to the statement that they were not in a "compromise" mood, U22 Vietnam quickly took the lead over their opponents and soon scored 2 goals in the first half thanks to Hieu Minh and Minh Phuc. Dinh Bac was the player who assisted in both of these goals for U22 Vietnam.
With this victory, U22 Vietnam entered the semi-finals as the top team in Group B after 2 wins, our opponent will be U22 Philippines - the top team in Group C with 2 wins against U22 Indonesia and U22 Myanmar.
Meanwhile, the fate of U22 Malaysia is forced to wait for the results of the final matches of Group A and C between U22 Thailand - U22 Singapore and U22 Indonesia - U22 Myanmar respectively.
Malaysia's News Straits Times published an article titled "The fate of U22 Malaysia is in the hands of U22 Indonesia" right after the home team's defeat.
In order to put forward the possibility that U22 Indonesia will be the name to "d like" the position of the second-placed team with the best results of U22 Malaysia after the final match of the group stage of the 33rd SEA Games.
The task of U22 Indonesia is to defeat U22 Myanmar by at least 3 goals. At that time, U22 Indonesia will win second place in Group C with 3 points with the same goal difference of +2 but will be better than U22 Malaysia, the team currently ranked second in Group B with 3 double goal difference points of +1.
Another case that also affected Malaysia U22's ticket to the next round was that U22 Singapore will defeat host Thailand U22 by 4 goals.
However, perhaps the Malaysian newspaper is not "optimistic" about this result, so it only evaluates the match between U22 Indonesia and U22 Myanmar in Group C.
