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Vietnam defeats Indonesia 6-0 at AFF Women’s Championship

Vietnam’s national women’s football team thrashed host Indonesia 6-0 in their first match at the 2018 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Women’s Championship on July 3.
Vietnam defeats Indonesia 6-0 at AFF Women’s Championship ảnh 1The Vietnam national women’s football team (Photo: vietnamnet.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s nationalwomen’s football team thrashed host Indonesia 6-0 in their first match at the2018 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Women’s Championship on July 3.

The team started the match with its strongestline-up. Huynh Nhu scored the first goal for the Vietnamese team just twominutes after the whistle.

The score was 3-0 for Vietnam in the firsthalf, with two more goals made by Nguyen Van and Hai Yen in the 28th and 41stminute, respectively.

In the second half of the match, Indonesia wasunable to push the ball towards the Vietnam side while Vietnam showed no signof slowing its attack. The Vietnamesewomen had the fourth goal in the 48th minute scored by Thai Thao.

Four minutes later, Huynh Nhu scored hersecond goal and Tuyet Dung’s goal in the 63rd minute settled the match at 6-0for Vietnam, the champion of the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 29).

With this result, Vietnam took the top spotin Group B. In earlier matches of Group B, host Indonesia was held to a scorelessdraw by Singapore, while Myanmar thrashed the Philippines 4-0.

Vietnam is due to face Singapore at 4:00pm onJuly 5.

The AFF event is taking place in Indonesia fromJune 30 to July 13. Vietnam is in Group B alongside Myanmar, the Philippines,Singapore and the host Indonesia. Group A features Thailand, Australia,Malaysia, Cambodia and Timor Leste.-VNA

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