Why was Vietnam Olympic eliminated while Thailand advanced despite not winning any matches?

On the evening of September 24, the Vietnamese Olympic team suffered a 0-3 defeat against the Saudi Arabian Olympic team in the final match of Group B of the 19th ASIAD men's football event.

Vietnam Olympic team (white shirt) stopped at ASIAD 19.

This defeat caused coach Hoang Anh Tuan and his team to stop at this year's tournament with only 3 points, ranked 3rd in Group B, scored 5 goals and conceded 9 goals.

However, due to not being considered for the bottom team's performance (due to the table not having enough 4 teams), the Vietnam Olympic team's performance was only 0 points, with a goal difference of -6.

Van Khang and his teammates ranked last out of five third-place teams in men's soccer.

Indonesia is the top team with 3 points, Qatar, Thailand and Myanmar all have 1 point.

Notably, Thailand is the team that did not have any wins in the group stage but still got the ticket to continue.

Thus, Olympic Vietnam is also the only team in Southeast Asia to stop early.

However, this result is not too surprising because the team under coach Hoang Anh Tuan fell into a very difficult group with the presence of Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Besides, Vietnam Olympic team mainly uses U20 players, who are still quite inexperienced.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/vi-sao-olympic-viet-nam-bi-loai-con-thai-lan-di-tiep-du-khong-thang-tran-nao-192230924214237499.htm