The more we enter the decisive stage of the AFF Cup 2024, the more excellent Nguyen Quang Hai will be. This is a very important factor, which can help the Vietnamese team differentiate itself from the rest of Southeast Asian football, to return to the regional championship.
Ups and downs of Quang Hai
In 2018, when the Vietnamese team won the AFF Cup, Quang Hai was the best player of the tournament. That was the period when the midfielder, who was playing for the Hanoi Police Football Club (CAHN), was at the peak of his performance. In the AFF Cup 2020 (actually taking place in 2021) and 2022, when Quang Hai had problems with his performance, because he was going through a difficult period at Pau FC (France), the Vietnamese team could not reach the championship trophy.
Quang Hai (19) and his teammates played well in the victory over Myanmar on December 21.
Photo: Ngoc Linh
In both the 2020 and 2022 AFF Cups, the Vietnamese team stopped before Thailand (in the semi-finals and finals, respectively). Quang Hai is the character on the Vietnamese team that the media in the region is most afraid of.
Thai press has repeatedly compared Quang Hai with “Thai Messi” Chanathip Songkrasin. They consider Quang Hai and Chanathip to be the best attacking midfielders in Southeast Asian football in the past decade.
Important victory of Vietnam team
Quang Hai at Noi Bai airport on December 23
Former coach of the U.20 and U.23 Vietnam teams, Mr. Hoang Anh Tuan, commented: “Nguyen Quang Hai is the best player to create breakthroughs on the Vietnam team. Quang Hai can pass the ball, dribble, or shoot himself. In general, with Quang Hai on the field, teams that own this player have many different options. Even when Quang Hai is faced with set pieces, his free kicks are more dangerous than those of other players.”
Those details show that when Quang Hai plays at his best, he is the difference between the Vietnamese team and many other teams in the region. And that difference is gradually appearing at the AFF Cup 2024.
Sublimate at AFF Cup 2024
In the two matches he played in the official lineup at this year's AFF Cup, Quang Hai scored: the only goal that brought a 1-0 victory over Indonesia and the goal that increased the score to 3-0 in the match against Myanmar, officially breaking the opponent's spirit.
These goals all came from situations where he received the ball bouncing off the opponent's defense, before unleashing powerful shots from close range to the 16m50 line. This means that in addition to the close-range finishing situations performed by strikers Xuan Son, Tien Linh, Vi Hao, the Vietnamese team will have more mid-range shots from Quang Hai, helping to diversify the Vietnamese team's attack.
In addition to the two goals mentioned above, Quang Hai also had a successful pass for Van Toan (in the match against Laos) and a free kick that hit the Myanmar goal post. That proves that what coach Hoang Anh Tuan said is happening, this player is gradually regaining his best form, the form that helped the Vietnamese team win the AFF Cup 2018. Quang Hai finds himself again, maybe it is also the time for the Vietnamese team to regain the AFF Cup championship that we lost to Thailand in the last 2 AFF Cups.
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