Asia newspaper: 'Vietnam bows to the superiority of the Netherlands'

"Vietnam bows to the superiority of the Netherlands" is the title of the article on the homepage of the AFC Asian Football Confederation, after the match at Forsyth Barr Stadium (Dunedin City, New Zealand).

With the goal of scoring as many goals as possible to occupy the top of Group E, the Netherlands attacked heavily and scored five goals in the first half. They slowed down in the second half, but also made the net of Vietnam hit two more times. The whole match, the defending runner-up had 72% possession of the ball, launched 42 shots and 15 of them were on target. In contrast, Vietnam has only finished five times and only once on target.

This is the match with the biggest difference in the 2023 Women's World Cup. Vietnam also became the first team to lose and not score in the group stage since the case of Japan in 1991. "Vietnam struggled all the way. wave after wave of attacks," AFC reported. "Vietnam said goodbye to the first World Cup with a lot of memories."

The FIFA World Football Federation homepage also wrote about this match, and described that the Netherlands put on a mesmerizing performance to take the impressive win. This is the biggest victory of this European representative in the history of participating in the World Cup.

Meanwhile, Sky Sports emphasized on the beautiful long-range goal of young star Esmee Brugts. Reuters assessed that the Netherlands lacked leading striker Vivianne Miedema because of injury, but impressed when there were five different players scoring against Vietnam.

Trang Vavel regrets that Vietnam had a time when they were very close to the historic goal, but the shots went far from the goal. Vavel's article reads: "Lucky for Vietnam to not lose more heavily against an opponent that is superior in every way. Their World Cup journey ended without a goal, but will certainly inspire a generation. next".

Vietnam left the tournament with the bottom position of Group E and headed home on August 3. Meanwhile, the Netherlands continues its journey and will wait for the opponent who is the second team of Group G in the round of 16, likely to avoid a strong opponent Sweden.