The coach of the U.23 Philippines team is very sad, pointing out the special thing that makes U.23 Vietnam better than Indonesia.

On the evening of July 25, after a 1-2 defeat to the U.23 Vietnam team in the U.23 Southeast Asia semi-finals, coach Garrath McPherson compared coach Kim Sang-sik's students with U.23 Indonesia, the team that U.23 Philippines faced in the group stage.

The comeback of the U.23 Vietnam team made the head coach of the U.23 Philippines sad. Mr. McPherson shared: "We are very sad, we believed that we could win this match, with the current quality. Vietnam is a strong team, deploying good attacks. We tried to break that but failed. Maybe we need to practice more.

We have a squad with some players from university teams, many young players. This is an opportunity for us to learn real-life experience. We had good minutes playing against the defending champions so I think the players will learn a lot. This is also good preparation for the U.23 Asian qualifiers and the SEA Games. My players have the potential to develop and will continue to improve."

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Coach of U.23 Philippines team

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This strategist also made a comparison between the two championship candidates, the U.23 Vietnam team and Indonesia: "Both are very strong. The U.23 Vietnam team has a knack for setting up attacks in set pieces. They have scored 5 or 6 goals like that. In addition, the U.23 Vietnam team also has good control, every time they have the ball in the opponent's half, they are very dangerous. As for the U.23 Indonesia team, they are good at passing the ball behind the opponent's defense. They also try to play in control, but the U.23 Vietnam team does this better."

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