At 20:30 pm on January 1, 2022, Beijing time, the second leg of the Southeast Asian Championship final started. The Indonesian West Asian team lost 2-2 to Thailand and lost 2-6 to Thailand in the total score. The Thai team finally won the championship of this Southeast Asian Championship. This final represents the highest level of football in Southeast Asian. Although there is no Vietnamese team, Vietnamese football has only been hyped up by Vietnamese domestic media in recent years. Although the Vietnamese team has achieved excellent results in youth competitions, at the national team level, except for entering the top 12 this time, everything else is not as good as the Thai team.
Thai team is currently ranked 115th in the world. It won all four games in the group stage and conceded only 1 goal. In the semi-finals, it eliminated the favorite Vietnam team with a total score of 2-0, and defeated Indonesia 4-0 in the first leg of the final.
Indonesian team is currently ranked 164th in the world, surpassing Vietnam in the group stage with a record of 3 wins and 1 draw, ranking first in the group. In the semi-finals, Singapore was eliminated 4-2 with a total score. Given that the first round was 0-4, it was too difficult to turn the tables.
In the starting lineup, both teams lined up 4231 formations. After the game started, the Thai team carried out a fierce attack. They wanted to start and then defensive counterattack tactics. But unexpectedly, the Indonesian team hit a counterattack in the 6th minute and scored a lightning goal. This goal touched the Thai team a lot. They seemed to realize that they could not attack blindly, otherwise the situation would seem to be a little bad.
The first half ended, and the Thai team temporarily lagged behind 0-1. Judging from the data at the half-time, the Indonesian team has some advantages with 53%, but in terms of shooting, there are only 3 shots, while the Thailand team has 7 shots.
The second half seemed to have some sudden changes, and the Thai team also saw that the strength of the Indonesian team was just like that, so they boldly attacked in the second half. In the 53rd and 55th minutes, the Thai team scored 2 goals in 2 minutes, and they both scored goals in the melee in front of the Indonesian team. For a moment, the Indonesian team was overturned.
In the 79th minute, the Indonesian team equalized the score to 2-2, with the 21-year-old young player Virik scored. But it was too late to score this goal and I couldn't make it happen.
In the end, the Thai team drew 2-2 with Indonesian in this game, winning the Southeast Championship with an absolute advantage of 6-2 in the total score. This victory also set three new records. First, the Thai team maintained an unbeaten record in 6 years and 6 games against Indonesia; second, in the 2016 Southeast Championship, the Thai team won the championship by defeating Indonesia in the final. This time, it is the second time in the history of the Thai team to win the championship with the Indonesian team;
third. In this game, the Thai team's leading scorer Dilasi Dangda was replaced in the 46th minute, but in this Southeast Championship, he still scored 4 goals to win the Golden Boot of this event. It is worth mentioning that he is also the Golden Boot of the 2016 Southeast Championship. The Golden Boots in the 2018 Southeast Championship was Thai player Adisha, so the Thai team also became the first team to win the Golden Boots in the Southeast Championship for three consecutive years.