Thai Son Nam advance to quarters of AFC Futsal Club Champ
Thai Son Nam advanced to the quarter-finals of the AFC Futsal Club Championship, completing their perfect record of three group stage wins in Thailand on August 11.
Kazuya Shimizu scored the opening goal for Thai Son Nam as the Vietnamese side beat Naft Al Wasat 6-4 in Group B of the AFC Futsal Club Championship on August 11 (Photo: the-afc.com)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA)- Thai Son Nam advanced to the quarter-finals of the AFC Futsal ClubChampionship, completing their perfect record of three group stage wins inThailand on August 11.
The Vietnamesechampions defeated Naft Al Wasat of Iraq 6-4 in their final Group B matchat Bangkok Arena.
Having won their twoearlier matches, Thai Son Nam only needed a draw to confirm their place in theknockout stage while Naft Al Wasat needed the full three points to keeptheir hopes alive.
Coach Pham MinhGiang, however, asked his players to attack from the beginning and theVietnamese side opened the scoring just four minutes into the first half.
KazuyaShimizu left Naft Al Wasat’s Tareq Zeyad Sulaiman behind before beatinggoalkeeper Omar Sabti Jumaah with Pham Duc Hoa providing the assist.
The Japanese playercontinued to give Naft Al Wasat trouble as he doubled the lead afteranother four minutes.
Hoa then secured hisdoubled in the 12th and 35th minutes, with a goal by Vu Duc Tung sandwichedin between. Goalkeeper Ho Van Y even got in on the action, netting agoal in the 37th minute.
The Iraqiside did not give up easily. Waleed Khalid Fahem Al-Mayali, Salim FaisalAbed Al-Husaynat, Angellott Alexander Garces and Arhad Tavakoli Roozbahani allscored to keep the game close, but they could not do enough to level thescore.
In thegroup's other match, AGMK FC of Uzbekistan defeated Al Rayyan fromQatar 7-5 to join Thai Son Nam the quarter-finals.
As the top teamin Group B, Thai Son Nam will play the second-placed team from GroupA, which will be decided when Shenzhen Nanling Tielang FC of China faceStar Fs Seoul of the Republic of Korea, and Port FC of Thailand take on FC Eremof Kyrgyzstan.-VNS/VNA
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Kazuya Shimizu scored the opening goal for Thai Son Nam as the Vietnamese side beat Naft Al Wasat 6-4 in Group B of the AFC Futsal Club Championship on August 11 (Photo: the-afc.com) 
