About Match
Sông Lam Nghệ An go into the game 2nd in the table on 6 points; Đông Á Thanh Hoá sit 8th on 3 — a 3-point gap. Recent form flatters Đông Á Thanh Hoá's table spot — 4th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 8th. Per game in the league, Sông Lam Nghệ An score 2.5 and conceding 0.5, Đông Á Thanh Hoá 2 and 2, against a competition average of 1.46 goals per team per game. Victory would move Sông Lam Nghệ An to 9 points and up to 1st, with other results unchanged.
The head-to-head ledger counts 8 games: 2 Sông Lam Nghệ An wins, 4 for Đông Á Thanh Hoá, 2 draws, at 2.38 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 38% of meetings won. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 25% of the meetings went over two goals. Where history says 2.38 goals per meeting, the last five say 1.4.
Sân vận động Vinh in Vinh stages the fixture, a ground that holds 12,000.