U23 Vietnam’s ‘young chicken’ benefits from AFC at the AFC U23 Championship

U23 Vietnam has had an impressive start at the 2022 AFC U23 Championship under the new coach Gong Oh Kyun. Despite dropping three unfortunate points when Thailand U23 equalized in injury time, Bui Hoang Viet Anh and his teammates still scored points in the eyes of the fans with a dedicated and exciting attacking pressing game.

It was the new tactic that Coach Gong Oh Kyun applied that brought early results for U23 Vietnam. After only 18 seconds of rolling the ball, defender Phan Tuan Tai hit the net of great rival Thailand U23 with a bold shot from a distance, after the effort of the entire U23 Vietnam team to compete for the ball.

Tuan Tai’s “speedy” goal was recorded as the 3rd fastest goal in the history of the AFC U23 Championship, and also the fastest goal ever of the Vietnamese national teams. This goal also helped U23 Vietnam’s “chicken” reach the Top achievements at the 2022 AFC U23 Championship.

Specifically, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) ranked Phan Tuan Tai third in the list of scorers at the 2022 AFC U23 Championship. Notably, 24 goals were scored in the first round, including money. Director Cho Young-wook (Korea U23) took the lead (2 goals), the remaining 22 players scored 1 goal, but defender 23 Vietnam was honored by AFC in 3rd place.

Phan Tuan Tai ranked 3rd in the list of goalscorers for the AFC U23 Championship 2022 thanks to a special advantage (Photo: AFC)

Accordingly, in addition to Cho Young-wook taking the lead for scoring the most goals, Kim Tae-hwan and Phan Tuan Tai both scored 1 goal, but both of these players had additional sub-stats that surpassed the rest of the players (also scored 1 goal) thanks to each of them having 1 more assist to create a goal.

In the 2-2 draw with Thailand U23, Phan Tuan Tai not only directly scored the opening goal, but also launched a sharp assist for Nguyen Van Tung to create an unstoppable volley in the 73rd minute. Meanwhile, , Kim Tae-hwan created an opportunity for Cho Young-wook to score a 4-1 victory for Korea U23 against Malaysia U23 in the 90+2 minute.

In addition, AFC also ranked the Korean U23 defender temporarily above the Vietnam U23 defender because there were more shots on target (2 vs 1), despite having the same number of goals and assists as well as the number of goals. equal minutes of play.

In the second match, U23 Vietnam will face U23 Korea at 20:00 on June 5.