From around 5:00 p.m. on October 14, Thong Nhat Stadium area experienced heavy rain lasting until around 7:00 p.m.
According to the announcement from the organizing committee, the match was postponed for 30 minutes to ensure professional quality. The match will start at 8:00 p.m. instead of 7:00 p.m. as originally scheduled.
This is relatively bad news for the Vietnam team as the wet and sunken pitch will more or less affect the attacking playing style of coach Kim Sang-sik and his team.
Meanwhile, coach Matt Ross of the Nepal team may "happily" with the current weather conditions at Thong Nhat Stadium. At the press conference before the match yesterday (October 13), he himself admitted that the Nepal team likes to play in the rain and they are used to it.
"We often play in humid weather because Nepal has just gone through the rainy season," he said. We also just faced Bangladesh in bad conditions. Our goalkeeper also loves playing in the rain. For Nepal, that is not a disadvantage. The heavier the rain, the better it will be for us. Players are used to that.
