Winning start for Thanh Hoa in ASEAN Club Championship Shopee Cup™
THANH HOA (21 August 2024) – Dong A Thanh Hoa FC made a winning start to their campaign in Group A of the ASEAN Club Championship Shopee Cup™ 2024/25 when they smashed Shan United 3-1 at the Thanh Hoa Provincial Stadium tonight.
The two-time Vietnam National Cup champions, Thanh Hao showed their mettle by returning from an early goal from Myanmar’s Shan United.
Shan United – the four-time winners of the Myanmar National League – prised open the lead after just five minutes through Moussa Paul Bakayoko.
However, Thanh Hoa tightened up their game into the second half to score thrice through Rimario Allando Gordon (61st minute), Yago Goncalves Ramos (72nd) and Luiz De Souza Soares (88th).
In the meantime, the match between Indonesia’s PSM Makassar FC and BG Pathum United FC from Thailand at the Batakan Stadium ended in a scoreless draw.
On the other hand, Malaysia’s Terengganu FC suffered a humiliating loss at home when they succumbed to a 3-2 defeat to Cambodian’s Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng FC.
In the match that was played at the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium, the visiting Svay Rieng side carved out two quick goals through Gabriel Silva Costa (12th minute) and Paulo Augusto Carvalho (16th).
Even though Terengganu finally showed up in the 55th minute for their first goal of the game through Manuel Ott, Svay Rieng regained their two-goal advantage off Min Ratanak’s 86th minute effort.
A late penalty for Terengganu that was converted by captain Muhammad Safawi Rasid (90th+1) was not enough to inspire them to steal the one point.
