Tracing Traces Of Indonesian And Vietnamese Travel To The 2022 AFF Cup Semifinals

JAKARTA - The Indonesian and Vietnamese national teams will meet in the 2022 AFF Cup semifinals. The following is a review of the journey of the two teams to the last four.

The Garuda squad qualified as runners up from Group A, while Vietnam is the winner of Group B. Both collected 10 points from four matches in the group stage.

Indonesia started the journey in the group with a narrow 2-1 win over Cambodia, crushed Brunei with a landslide score of 7-0, drew 1-1 with Thailand, and won 2-1 over the Philippines.

The total ten points collected by Indonesia are the same as Thailand's collection. It's just that Garuda's troops lost on goal difference so they had to settle for second place.

Meanwhile, Vietnam qualified with a more perfect record. Park Hang Seo's side did not concede a single goal from the four games played.

They started the journey by winning a landslide over Laos six goals without reply, then beating Malaysia 3-0, playing a 0-0 draw with Singapore, and winning 3-0 over Myanmar.

For Vietnam, this is their 12th semifinal match in the AFF Cup. From the previous 11 occasions, they qualified for the final three times and managed to get out as champions in 2008 and 2018 twice.

Meanwhile, for Indonesia this is the tenth semifinal in this biennial competition. Of the total, six times Garuda went to the final, but always came out as runners up.