Victory Sports Club won Hoa Phat match by 2-0.

Hoa Phat Hanoi crashes out of Asian football champ

Vietnam Cup champion Hoa Phat Hanoi lost 2-0 to the Maldives’s Victory club Tuesday in the AFC Cup and now has no chance of qualifying from group D.

Hoa Phat now trails the group with just two points from four games. Hong Kong club Xiangzue Sun Hei is the likely qualifier with nine points so far.

The Vietnamese club will play its last two matches on May 8 and 22.

FC Cup’s group D

Teams	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Points
Xiangzue Sun Hei (HKG)	3	3	0	0	6	1	9
Victory SC (MDV)	4	1	2	1	6	6	5
Negeri Sembilan (MAS)	3	0	2	1	2	4	2
Hoa Phat Hanoi (VIE)	4	0	2	2	3	6	2

Source: Thanh Nien News

Football / AFC Cup: Do-or-die for Negri, Pahang

NEGRI Sembilan, after being edged 2-1 by Selangor in a Malaysian Super League (MSL) match last weekend, must pick themselves up for their AFC Cup clash with Xiangzue Sun from Hong Kong at the Mongkok Stadium in Hong Kong tonight.
Xiangzue Sun top Group D with wins over Victory FC (2-0) from Maldives and Vietnam’s Hoa Pat Hanoi (2-1).

Negri have drawn their two matches to date and must win tonight’s match if they hope to advance to the second round. Negri drew 0-0 with Hoa Pat Hanoi and 2-2 with Victory FC in Male.

"I hope we can collect three points here (in Hong Kong) which will keep our hopes of advancing to the next stage alive," said Negri coach Hatem Souissi.

The other Group D match sees Victory SC take on Hoa Pat Hanoi at the National Stadium in Male.

Pahang, Malaysia’s other representative in the AFC Cup, take on Singapore’s Tampines Rovers in a Group F match at the MPPJ Stadium. Pahang are at the bottom of the table after defeats to Osotpa 150 FC of Thailand (4-0) and Mohun Bagan of India (2-1).

Pahang, who have been having a bad spell of late, lost 3-0 to TMFC in a MSL match last weekend.

Osotspa 150 FC host Mohun Bagan in the other Group F match at the Royal Thail Army Stadium tonight.

Source: NST Online

Negeri Sembilan football club of Malaysia arrived to Male’

Negeri Sembilan football club of Malaysia arrived to Male’ tonight from Malaysian airlines for their clash against Victory Sports Club of Maldives. Negeri Sembilan will be staying at Nasandhura Palace Hotel and would be in the National Stadium for their first practice session on Sunday evening. The team includes 22 players and 8 officials.Negeri Sembilan made a goalless draw with Hano Pat Hanoi of Vietnam in their first match of the tournament in Malaysia. Even though Victory lost their very first game of the tournament to Hong Kong’s giant Sun Hei FC they believe that can get a good result at home. The match would be played on 20th at 1600 hrs local time. Negeri Sembilan have won there last match they played with ATM in Maleysia Cup 2007 they won the match by 0-3 to ATM but Negeri Sembilan is not performing well in there league they are in 11th position in there league and they have played 11 matches and won only 3 of them draw 2 and lost 6 matches.