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Vietnam met the weakest opponent in the opening match of the AFF Cup 2020

Thứ ba, 16/06/2020 15:00 (GMT+7)
Amelia
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The Vietnamese team has a great advantage when it only has to meet the No. 5 seeded team in the opening match of the AFF Cup 2020.

Recently, the Southeast Asian Football Federation announced that the AFF Suzuki Cup 2020 will be held as scheduled from November 23 to December 31, 2020. To ensure the quality of the tournament, AFF is passing many proposals of Vietnam.

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Specifically, AFF allows teams to register a preliminary list of 70 players, an official list of 30 players and to register 23 players for each match. In addition, the AFF Suzuki Cup 2020 also applies the rule of changing 5 days / match.

The Southeast Asian Football Federation also expressed its desire that Vietnam will host the draw for the AFF Suzuki Cup 2020 group table. This ceremony is scheduled to be held in August 2020 in Hanoi.

As the reigning champion of the tournament, Vietnam will be ranked in the No. 1 seed group. In addition, Park Hang-seo side has a great advantage when meeting the team in the 5th seed group in the match.

The opponents of the Vietnamese team in the opening match will be Laos or Brunei / East Timor. This is a huge advantage for Vietnam to have its first victory, creating psychological momentum for the difficult games behind.

AFF Suzuki Cup 2020 will have 9 teams going straight to the group stage, the remaining two teams in the region will have to play-off to compete for tickets to the final round East Timor and Brunei. The play-off of the two teams will take place in the form of home-away matches in October 2020.

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