Comments on U20 Vietnam's opponents at the U20 Asian Finals

The predecessor of the U20 Asian Cup is the U19 Asian Cup. The final round of this U20 Asian Cup is considered a qualifying round for teams to compete to select the 4 teams with the best results to qualify for the U20 World Cup finals with host Indonesia.

At the U20 level, the players are young, lack a lot of battle experience and do not have a really high tactical awareness. U20 Australia, U20 Iran and U20 Qatar are no exception.

However, it would be a mistake if we were subjective and underestimated our opponents because the above opponents will all play with high determination and all are eager to win the right to reach at least the semi-finals to earn a ticket to the U20 World Cup finals.

Let's start with U20 Australia. U20 Australia has participated in the U19 Asian Cup 7 times, finishing as runner-up once, reaching the semi-finals twice, and reaching the quarter-finals twice. In this year's U20 Asian Cup qualifiers, U20 Australia won all matches against Iraq, India, and Kuwait.

With the goal of qualifying for the U20 World Cup for the first time in 10 years, U20 Australia used its strongest squad in this U20 Asian tournament. English coach Trevor Morgan called up a squad of top young players playing in the Australian national championship.

In addition, Mr. Trevor Morgan also strengthened the U20 Australia team by calling up 4 players currently playing in Europe, including Matt Dench (Charlton Athletic), Joshua Rawlins (FC Utrecht), Jing Reec (Aarhus) and Gabriel Popovic (Rudeš).

The most notable of these is Joshua Rawlins, who was with the Australian U17 team at the 2019 U17 World Cup and with the Australian U23 team at the 2022 U23 Asian Cup.

U20 Iran promises to be a tough opponent for U20 Vietnam. They are a team with many achievements in the U19 Asian tournament with 4 championships. In the last 10 U19 Asian finals, U20 Iran reached the semi-finals twice, the quarter-finals once and were eliminated in the group stage 7 times.

In the recent U20 Asian qualifiers, U20 won all matches against U20 UAE, U20 Kyrgyzstan and U20 Brunei (scoring 11 goals and keeping a clean sheet). This is a strong team, possessing many individuals with good physical strength, physique, speed and technique.

Finally, U20 Qatar, the team that won the U19 Asian Cup in 2014 and reached the semi-finals in 2018. In the recent U20 Asian qualifiers, Qatar won all 4 matches, scored 13 goals and kept a clean sheet. However, the opponents they defeated, including Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, were considered weak, so the true strength of U20 Qatar is still unknown.

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