Defeated by Australia, Vietnam women's team competes for 3rd place with Thailand

Despite playing with great effort and resilience, the Vietnamese Women's Team had to accept a 1-2 defeat to Australia in the semi-final of the 2025 Southeast Asian Women's Football Championship. Notably, the match was honored to be attended by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

The away team's advantage in physical strength and physique posed a big challenge to the home team right from the first minutes of the match. With superiority,   The Australian girls took the initiative to attack the home team and scored the equalizer in the 6th minute after Keane's header.

The Vietnamese women's team played very bravely against their opponents.

Despite losing early, coach Mai Duc Chung's students were not discouraged and continued to put pressure on the opponent's goal, but the style of play of the kangaroo country's women's team made it difficult for the home team.

In the 17th minute, the home team's net continued to shake when McKenna took a tricky shot into the goal, raising the score to 2-0 for Australia.

Despite losing two consecutive goals, the Vietnamese women's team still maintained their determination and tried to launch attacks to find a goal. However, the superior physique and physical strength of the opponent caused many difficulties for the Vietnamese women's team.

Right at the beginning of the second half, coach Mai Duc Chung sent Hai Linh in to replace Thai Thi Thao, in order to control the game and have better passes, but the opportunity still did not come to the Vietnamese women's team, although coach Mai Duc Chung's students also tried very hard and persevered.

Towards the end of the match, the Vietnamese female players showed more and more impatience, many opportunities were created, but it was not until the 88th minute that Bich Thuy scored a goal to shorten the score to 1-2 for the Vietnamese team from an extremely impressive solo play.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh encouraged the Vietnamese women's team after the match.

In the remaining minutes, despite their best efforts, the Vietnamese players could not score any more goals. Losing 1-2 overall, the Vietnamese women's team played for third place against the Thai women's team (who lost 1-2 to Myanmar in the previous semi-final at 4:00 p.m.).

Speaking after the match, coach Mai Duc Chung, on behalf of the Vietnamese women's team, thanked fans nationwide and Hai Phong in particular for cheering for the team: "This was an exciting, thrilling match. It's been a long time since I've been back to an atmosphere like this. The team tried hard, especially in the second half. After the semi-final match didn't have a good result, we encouraged each other to try our best to win the Bronze medal. Thailand is an opponent that Vietnam knows well, so the whole team needs to play tight and enter the game well to win."

Coach Mai Duc Chung, on behalf of the Vietnam Women's Team, thanked Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh for his encouragement and support.

"That helps us to make more efforts and strive to win the Bronze medal to respond to the attention of the Prime Minister and the fans" - Coach Mai Duc Chung emphasized.

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/that-bai-truoc-australia-tuyen-nu-viet-nam-tranh-hang-3-cung-thai-lan-20250817000304978.htm