| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sai Gon | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7/15 | 5-6 |
| Hai Phong | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8/15 | 7-5 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2018-06-03 – 2018-09-15) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | Hải Phòng | 1-0 | Sai Gon |
| 2018-06-03 | Sai Gon | 0-1 | Hải Phòng |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sai Gon | 13 | 24 | 22 | -16 | LLLLW | 11 | +2 |
| Hải Phòng | 2 | 24 | 48 | 13 | WWDWW | 1 | +1 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2022-10-28
On paper the standings were lopsided — Hai Phong 2nd with 48 points, Sai Gon 13th with 22, 26 apart. In league terms the two rates read 1.08/1.75 for Sai Gon and 1.63/1.08 for Hai Phong (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.22.
Sân vận động Thống Nhất in Ho Chi Minh City staged the fixture, a ground that holds 25,000. Hai Phong led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.
