Coach Tran Tien Dai was proposed to be fined for fighting with the referee.

In this match, Coach Tran Tien Dai rushed onto the field to react harshly to referee Viet Duan because he thought a foreign player from the Hanoi Police Club had been fouled. After a scuffle with the referee, this coach received a direct red card.

HLV Trần Tiến Đại bị đề nghị phạt nguội vì xô xát trọng tài - 1 — Interim coach Tran Tien Dai in the match against Binh Duong (Photo: Manh Quan).

Despite being stripped of his coaching rights, Mr. Dai remained in the team's technical area until he was reminded to go up to the stands.

After the match, in the referee supervisor's report, the match supervisor clearly stated the bad behavior of the coach of the Hanoi Police Club: "Coach Tran Tien Dai had actions and words that insulted and offended the main referee Nguyen Viet Duan and immediately received a red card.

Immediately after being stripped of his duty, Mr. Tran Tien Dai behaved very offensively, removing his duty card from the Organizing Committee and throwing it hard on the ground.

According to the report, the coach of the Hanoi Police Club did not comply but continued to stay in the technical area despite the fourth referee's repeated reminders and requests, until the referee had to temporarily stop the match and request Mr. Tran Tien Dai to comply with leaving the technical area and moving to the stands.

HLV Trần Tiến Đại bị đề nghị phạt nguội vì xô xát trọng tài - 2 — Coach Tran Tien Dai received a red card for reacting to the referee (Photo: Manh Quan).

With his violations, Coach Tran Tien Dai will almost certainly be fined. However, from the next round, it is likely that the Hanoi Police Club will be led by new coach Mano Polking.

In addition to the above incident, the tournament's Organizing Committee also proposed to consider handling the violation of the Hanoi Police Club. Specifically, this team deliberately did not comply with the countdown time, despite the match supervisor's constant reminders and requests, causing the match to start about 5 minutes later than scheduled.

In the case of player Nguyen Thanh Thao (number 3 of Ho Chi Minh City FC) who hit Nguyen Van Hanh of Hong Linh Ha Tinh FC, he only received a yellow card. However, Thanh Thao's entire behavior was recorded by live television cameras.

Thanh Thao’s cold-blooded act has also been condemned by the media and the audience. Most believe that Thanh Thao deserves further disciplinary action.

"Considering that Thanh Thao's yellow card is not appropriate to the level of violation, the tournament organizing committee requests that the VFF and the Disciplinary Board consider and impose a more severe penalty on the above violation of player Nguyen Thanh Thao," the tournament organizing committee requested.

After round 8, V-League 2023/24 will pause for more than a month for the Vietnamese team to participate in the 2023 Asian Cup. The Vietnamese National Championship will return on February 17, 2024.