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Two hours from now, the game between Singapore and Vietnam to determine which team will go to the final will started. A short and quick review from me:
Singapore, which is the smallest country in ASEAN, is more likely to win the match, as they are the defending champion of AFF cup. They even seek for their hattrick in this competition. As I did before, what I compare isn’t the squad they had, but more to managerial capacity of the coach.
Henrique Calisto, Vietnam team’s head coach stated that even though they will be playing at home, the pressure to deliver will be on the visitors as they will come into the game as the defending champions.

“I believe that the pressure will not be on us as we have already fulfilled our initial target, which was to be among the best four teams in this competition,” said Calisto.

“No one gave us a chance of making into the next round but we did it and it is because of that, the team is more relaxed and they will go into the match with a sense of enjoyment.
“We want to win of course as the last time Vietnam made the final was ten years ago. And if we can do that, then it will be sensational.”

What a clever move from Calisto to remove the burden from Vietnam team. And with this, the Vietnam team can play without unneeded pressure. It is different case with the other semifinalist, Indonesia (which defeated in front of its own fans because of unneeded pressure from coach comment).

In other hand, Raddy, Singapore coach stated :
“We go into every match and every competition with a win in mind, so there is no such thing as wanting to be defensive against Vietnam.
“Most of the players have played in big matches before and they should be well adjusted to whatever is the condition on match day.”
To emphasize, both of the teams have the confidence. And that is what exactly you need before a match. So I would like to say the game will ended up with a draw or a slightly win for Vietnam because they played in front of their fans and the cold temperature will reduce Singapore performance a bit but enough for Vietnam to take one or two goals.

But anyway, even Vietnam more likely to win this match, they will have difficult time to play at Singapore. So in my opinion, the finalist would be Singapore.