{"id":34926,"date":"2026-01-20T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/2026-asian-cup-china-reaches-the-final-after-defeating-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:39:18","slug":"2026-asian-cup-china-reaches-the-final-after-defeating-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/2026-asian-cup-china-reaches-the-final-after-defeating-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Asian Cup: China reaches the final after defeating Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_1536bc1d1a614a78\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">China Qualifies for the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup Final with a Victory Over Vietnam<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The Chinese national football team qualified for the final match of the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup after achieving a crushing three-goal victory over its Vietnamese counterpart in the match held Tuesday evening at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City Stadium in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">China scored the first goal in first-half stoppage time through player Peng Shigou in the 47th minute, before teammate Yuehang Xiang added the second goal with a header in the 52nd minute. Then, Yudong Wang managed to score the third and final goal for his team in the 90+8 minute, sealing China&#8217;s victory with a magical trio of goals.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">As a result of this qualifying match, the Chinese national team will meet the Japanese national team in the final match next Saturday at the same Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City Stadium in Jeddah to compete for the tournament title.<\/p>\n<p>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/p>\n<p>An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world, to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"KJKxgBtmm6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/\">Home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u2013 UNN \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\" src=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/embed\/#?secret=d7XfxGt96q#?secret=KJKxgBtmm6\" data-secret=\"KJKxgBtmm6\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Qualifies for the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup Final with a Victory Over Vietnam The Chinese national football team qualified for the final match of the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup after achieving a crushing three-goal victory over its Vietnamese counterpart in the match held Tuesday evening at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}