Match Report
6 points and 6 places separated them: Sai Gon 13th with 22, FLC Thanh Hoa 7th with 28. On recent form Đông Á Thanh Hoá sat only 13th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 7th overall. In league terms the two rates read 1.08/1.75 for Sai Gon and 1.13/1.13 for FLC Thanh Hoa (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.22.
Sân vận động Thống Nhất in Ho Chi Minh City, capacity 25,000, hosted the game. The referee was D. Ngô, with 47 matches in our database and 1.4 yellows per game on average. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 0-1.