Vietnam 4-1 Chinese Taipei: Keeping the Hope

USPA NEWS - Vietnam won Chinese Taipei 4-1 in the first official match Huu Thang as the coach of Vietnam national football team. He had a successful beginning. After this game, Vietnam is keeping their hopes of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

March 24, 2016: Vietnam won Chinese Taipei 4-1 in the first official match Huu Thang as the coach of Vietnam national football team. He had a successful beginning. After this game, Vietnam is keeping their hopes of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Chinese Taipei took the lead after just seven minutes, but it wasn't too long. Vietnam strikes back by 4 goals of Le Cong Vinh and Nguyen Van Toan. And they kept the final score 4-1 successfully.

Coach Huu Thang said he is very happy about final score and the support of Vietnam fans in his first game as the coach of Vietnam national football team. He wants to say "thank you" to Vietnamese fans, they continuously called his name after the end of this match. With this victory, Vietnam is just two points behind second-placed Iraq in Group F of the 2018 FIFA World Cup/2019 AFC Asian Cup joint-qualifiers. And they are meeting together in the last match of Group F in Tehran next week. If win that match, Vietnam will take the second place of group F.

The group winners and four best runners-up (total 12 teams) will advance to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup finals and the final round of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The next best 24 teams from the preliminary stage of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining slots (12 slots or 11 slots + 1 slot for the host) in the 24-team 2019 Asian Cup.