Vietnam Women's Team - Japan (15:00 today): Calculating tickets to the quarterfinals

(Dan Tri) - If the Vietnamese women's team loses to Japan, they can still enter the quarterfinals, but it must not be a too heavy loss, to compare the secondary index with the second-placed teams in other groups.

*The match between the Vietnamese women's team and the Japanese women's team will take place at 3:00 p.m. on September 28 (Vietnam time), at the Wenzhou Olympic Sports Center in Wenzhou City (China), Dan Tri will report this match online. According to the regulations of the women's football event at this year's Asiad, the top 5 teams from 5 groups, along with the 3 second-placed teams with the best results in each group, will qualify for the quarterfinals.

Vietnam women's team seeks ticket to quarterfinals (Photo: Tuan Bao).

In addition, since Group B only has 3 teams (Taiwan, Thailand, India) compared to 4 teams in the other groups. Therefore, the results between the second-placed team in each group and the corresponding fourth-placed team in that group will not be counted when considering the achievements between the second-placed teams. In addition, since Group C only has two teams (North Korea and Singapore), the second-placed team in Group C will be eliminated, but the results will not be considered for comparison with the second-placed teams in the other groups. The second-placed team in Group C, Singapore, is definitely eliminated. The rules are complicated, so the ranking of the second-placed teams in the groups is also quite complicated, not easy to understand for ordinary audiences, especially female audiences. Basically, the Vietnamese women's team needs to avoid losing heavily to Japan in the final match of the group stage this afternoon (September 28), to calculate the additional index with the second-placed teams in the other groups.

The Vietnamese women's team will have a ticket to continue (Photo: Tuan Bao).

Japan is a powerhouse of women's football in Asia and the world , so defeating Japan to compete for the top spot in Group D is almost an impossible task for the Vietnamese women's team. Coach Mai Duc Chung's team will hardly avoid defeat, but it is best not to lose heavily. If we subtract the result with the bottom team in Group D, Bangladesh, the Vietnamese women's team currently has 3 points and a goal difference of +2. We are temporarily ranked second among the second-place teams with the best results. But this position is still temporary, if the last match, the Philippines (currently has no points, goal difference -4) wins Myanmar (6:30 p.m. September 28) with a difference of 3 goals, and the Vietnamese women's team loses to Japan with a difference of 3 goals. At that time, the Philippines has 3 points, goal difference -1, and the Vietnamese women's team also has 3 points, goal difference -1, but will be eliminated because they scored fewer goals than their opponents. That is just one of the possibilities. There are many other possibilities, depending on the developments of the final round of the group stage taking place this afternoon. So the best way is for the Vietnamese women's team to avoid losing heavily to Japan to ensure their ticket to the next round. Believing that with the experience of the Vietnamese women's players, combined with the fact that Japan has secured a place in the next round, the team from the land of the rising sun will not win too heavily. Prediction: The Japanese women's team wins 2-0

Ranking of the second-placed teams in each group. Thailand has finished playing, Vietnam women's team meets Japan in group D, Uzbekistan meets China in group A and Philippines meets Myanmar in group E.

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