Vietnam make winning start to ASEAN Championship

Vietnam kicked off the defence of their ASEAN Championship title with a ​7-0 win over Timor-Leste in Chonburi on ‌Friday with Nguyen Dinh Bac scoring a hat-trick for Kim Sang-sik's side.

Brazil-born forward Do Hoang Hen gave Vietnam ​a seventh-minute lead before Dinh Bac doubled ​his side's advantage in the 31st minute ⁠with a curling strike into the bottom corner ​of Dylan Niski's goal.

Hoang Hen and Dinh Bac ​scored and Nguyen Xuan Son was on target in stoppage time to give Vietnam a five-goal lead at the ​interval.

Dinh Bac completed his hat-trick in the ​65th minute when he steered home Bui Hoang Viet Anh's ‌cutback ⁠and an own goal by Liam Farrugia completed the rout.

Singapore needed a spectacular last-gasp strike by Ilhan Fandi to register a 2-1 win over ​Cambodia in ​Phnom Penh ⁠after Shawal Anuar's 22nd-minute opener for the visitors had been cancelled out ​by Ouk Sovann in the 55th minute.

Ilhan ​claimed ⁠the points for Singapore 11 minutes into stoppage time when he flicked Song Ui-young's pass into ⁠the ​air to set himself up ​for an acrobatic finish that gave Cambodian goalkeeper Hul Kimhuy no ​chance.