Thailand tops at half of AFF Cup 2022 parameters
*Vietnam - Thailand: 19:30 Friday, January 13, on MetaSports.
Statistics on the AFF Cup 2022 homepage have 16 parameters, of which Thailand leads in the categories of 16 goals, 2.67 goals per game, 3,480 passes, 87% standard pass rate, 128 shots, 45 shots on goal, 40 corners and three penalties. Mano Polking's army is better than the opponent in most attack stats.
Thailand is leading the tournament with 16 goals, two more than Vietnam. They also own the player who is leading the race to top scorer Teerasil Dangda, when he scored six goals in six matches, one more than Nguyen Tien Linh. Captain Theerathon Bunmathan also leads in assists with Safawi Rasid, with four assists.
The three players who created the most chances at AFF Cup 2022 are all Thai, with Theerathon, Teerasil and Ekanit Panya. In particular, Theerathon passed to his teammates 25 times, more than twice as much as Teerasil. The number of crosses of the Thai captain is more than double that of the second - teammate Suphanan Bureerat.
The three players with the most shots up to the semi-finals also belonged to Thailand, of which Teerasil had 21 chances, nearly twice more than Bordin Phala and Peeradol Chamrasamee. The Vietnamese player with the most shots was Tien Linh with 11 chances, but his performance was the highest with 2.2 shots per goal.
Vietnam also impressed as they topped the defensive stats, with six clean sheets, no goals conceded and 93 tackles. Goalkeeper Dang Van Lam has kept a clean sheet in all six matches at the tournament, no one else has kept a white sheet three or more times.
The final first leg of the AFF Cup 2022 will take place at 19:30 on Friday, January 13, 2023 at My Dinh Stadium. The return leg took place exactly three days later, at Thammasat Stadium, Pathum Thani province.
