VFF: 'U19 Southeast Asia confrontation is justified'

After the home team was eliminated, the Indonesian Football Association PSSI announced that it would send an official letter with video, asking the Southeast Asian Football Association AFF to consider the performances of Vietnam and Thailand in the match on July 10th. Indonesia believe the two rivals showed signs of a lack of level playing field in a 1-1 draw in the final round of Group A-the result was enough to reach the semi-finals together. The head of the delegation, Endri Erawan, even suggested the AFF eliminate Vietnam and Thailand.

In response to Metasports on the morning of July 12, Chan Kwok-joon, acting president of the Vietnam Football Association, said he had not received a complaint from Indonesia or asked for an explanation from the AFF. According to Mr Duan, this year's Southeast Asia U19 Championship was hosted by Indonesia, so the charter was approved by them and all parties several months ago, so the host has no reason to complain. "The method of calculating confrontation when more than two teams in a group score the same points has been adopted by many major events in the world, not just in Southeast Asia. Experts and event organizers have studied it, carefully analyzed it, and then applied this method," said Mr. Duan-who is currently the chairman of the competition committee of the Asian Football Federation (AFC).

VFF President also analyzed that the way to calculate the goal difference was too old, encouraging the teams to score many goals but contained many injustice. "In a group, there is always a strong team and a weak team. When he first entered the tournament, the weak team often stretched the competition, making the strong team hard to win. But at the end of the tournament, once he was eliminated, the weak team easily gave up down Or players reduce physical strength, penalty cards ... make them even weaker. At that time, the matches often appeared more goals, leading to unfairness when the teams involved in racing differently, "Mr. Tuan analyzed.

The fact that happened in Group A. Indonesia drew Vietnam and Thailand with the score of 0-0, alternating with strong victories against Myanmar, Philippines and Brunei to achieve +15. Meanwhile, Vietnam and Thailand have a lower difference, +9 and +6 respectively, but scored in the match against the direct competitor. "Considering the Vietnamese schedule more disadvantageous. strong. "With the current format, strong teams need to attack, try to score when they meet to take advantage once they have to calculate the difference. Every team knows that, and the coaches must calculate the distribution of power Reasonable amount so as not to be disadvantaged. When the end of the group stage, the law has not been changed, it cannot be changed. "

In the semifinals on July 13, Vietnam meets Malaysia at 15:30, while Laos plays Thailand at 20:00.