HOANG DUC IS NOT PLAYING WELL AS A STRIKER
Coach Troussier brought the first surprise when he placed Hoang Duc as the highest player in the attack of the Vietnamese team. Throughout his career, Duc has almost never played in this position, perhaps as a withdrawn striker at Viettel Club or an attacking midfielder under coach Park Hang-seo. To be fair, Duc did not play badly. The best player of V-League 2023 still retains his special qualities: the ability to move and choose a smart position, the ability to control the ball dynamically and escape pressing perfectly, the timing of moving to receive the ball, passing the ball smoothly to teammates is still maintained perfectly. For example, the situation where Duc proactively retreated to receive the ball, controlled the ball neatly and waited for the right moment when Tien Anh on the left wing rushed up, then he launched a sharp pass into the Palestine center. The pass tore through the opponent's defense. Or the situations where Duc moved to the left wing, broke through and made dangerous crosses.
Excellent Hoang Duc
The Vietnamese team still has a lot of work to do.
That shows that placing Hoang Duc as a striker is not necessarily a bad experiment of coach Troussier but it is not suitable for the current playing style of the team. The central midfield duo Hung Dung - Tuan Anh is ideal in theory and in past performances. But in the match against Palestine, this duo was overwhelmed and a bit timid in front of the opponent's close and somewhat rough approach. Our midfield was constantly broken by overly strong ball-fighting situations. Everything only changed when the coaching board decided to put Cong Phuong in the highest position in the attack and withdrew Hoang Duc to the midfield. Immediately the midfield had smoothness and softness in the ball rotation situations and Hoang Duc's delicate passes.
POSITIVE VALUES
The Vietnamese team had a good test of ball control ability when facing an opponent who played with high intensity pressing and sharp ball entry. With reasonable adjustments, the Vietnamese team maintained good team distance, better connection ability. The players moved to support, controlled the ball and passed it simply and accurately, and the ball circulation speed was faster.
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Cong Phuong scored
When Hoang Duc was withdrawn to the midfield and the fast strikers were on the field, they were most effective. The conductor of the Vietnamese team, when retreating to the midfield, not only helped the midfield control the ball smoothly but also made "high-damage" medium passes behind the opponent's defense for the fast strikers to exploit. In a tense match, only two highly tactical passes from Hoang Duc - Duy Manh, two situations where Cong Phuong - Van Toan chose the right position and time to move and accelerate were needed for everything to be completely resolved.
The 2-0 victory over Palestine was not a very good match for the Vietnamese team. But it had positive value in terms of testing the formation, in terms of testing the ability to control the ball under high pressure and the opponent's rough play. The rookies gained experience and the veterans got the feeling of playing, had passes and goals to regain motivation after a long period of losing form. Overall, it was still progress with valuable lessons. Hopefully, the Vietnamese team will continue to seriously improve themselves to have a more solid step forward in the future.
Drawing with Singapore, U.23 Vietnam lost its winning streak in the qualifying round
With two wins against U.23 Guam and U.23 Yemen, U.23 Vietnam has secured a ticket to the 2024 AFC U.23 Championship finals with the top spot in Group C. Therefore, the match against U.23 Singapore in the final round last night, September 12, at Viet Tri Stadium (Phu Tho) was just a formality.
Coach Troussier continued to experiment, changing up to 9 names in the starting lineup compared to the previous match. In addition, Mr. Troussier also rotated many surprising positions.
Despite many changes in the lineup, U.23 Vietnam still played completely superior to U.23 Singapore. However, there were not many really smooth attacking combinations, if any, they were not very effective. Meanwhile, U.23 Singapore, although eliminated, showed admirable efforts. Nguyen Dinh Bac opened the score from the 11m mark in the 13th minute. In the 58th minute, substitute player Nguyen Huu Nam headed the ball into his own net. Huu Nam made amends with a powerful shot in the penalty area in the 77th minute, raising the score to 2-1 for U.23 Vietnam. But Zikos scored in the 85th minute to help U.23 Singapore hold U.23 Vietnam to a 2-2 draw.
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