Xuan Son injured, opening up opportunities for the remaining strikers
In the 12th round of V-League 2024-2025, Tien Linh scored 1 goal, helping Binh Duong win 2-1 against Quang Nam Club right on the away field of Tam Ky. This was a beautiful goal, true to Tien Linh's forte: this player moved to cut in front of the opponent's defender, jumped high to head the ball after a pass from teammate Que Ngoc Hai.
Tien Linh temporarily leads the list of top scorers
With this goal, Tien Linh has surpassed to take the leading position in the list of goalscorers in the current V-League season, with 8 goals. Right behind Tien Linh are 3 strikers Artur De Melo (Hanoi Police Club), Lucas Vinicius (commonly known as Lucao, Hai Phong) and Nguyen Xuan Son (Nam Dinh), each with 7 goals.
Among them, except for Xuan Son who is injured and will definitely be out until the end of the 2024-2025 season, the three players Tien Linh, Artur De Melo and Lucao are all playing well and are all pillars of the clubs they are playing for.
In the 12th round, Lucao also scored another goal, against Ho Chi Minh City FC, in the match where Hai Phong won the city team 2-0 at Lach Tray Stadium (Hai Phong) on the evening of February 8. Meanwhile, Artur De Melo will play in the late match of the 12th round, between Hanoi Police Club (CAHN) and Ha Tinh at Ha Tinh Stadium tonight.
Lucao and Artur De Melo are both very dangerous strikers, so they will certainly speed up, not letting Nguyen Tien Linh easily take the lead in the race for the top scorer title in the near future.
Also in the match between CAHN and Ha Tinh tonight at Ha Tinh Stadium, there is another notable foreign striker, Geovane Magno of Ha Tinh. This player currently has 4 goals, 4 goals less than Tien Linh, 3 goals less than Artur De Melo and Lucao each. However, Geovane can still compete for the top scorer title with the strikers above him, if he plays explosively in the next rounds.
Expecting domestic striker to win top scorer title, Tien Linh is full of opportunities
The last time a pure domestic striker won the V-League top scorer title was in the 2017 season. The player who scored the most goals in the tournament that year was Nguyen Anh Duc (Binh Duong), with 17 goals.
Van Quyet is also in the leading group of strikers scoring many goals in V-League.
Around 17 – 20 goals is also the number of goals that the top scorers of V-League usually have in each season. Nguyen Xuan Son is a rare exception in V-League in recent years, when Xuan Son scored more than 30 goals in 1 season in this tournament last year.
If we consider the parameters of about 17 - 20 goals usually scored by a top scorer in a season, Nguyen Tien Linh is reaching the required parameters to think about the title of player with the most goals in V-League 2024-2025. Tien Linh's current number of goals is nearly half of Anh Duc's goals in 2017, after V-League has gone nearly half of the route (12/26 rounds). That is, in the remaining half, Tien Linh can completely score 8 - 10 more goals.
Tien Linh is also the successor of Anh Duc at Binh Duong Club. This player receives a lot of support from his teammates. Most positions in the Southeast team's lineup prioritize passing the ball to Tien Linh up front, whenever Binh Duong players discover that Tien Linh has occupied the space in front of the opponent's penalty area. This could be the premise for Tien Linh to score more goals in the rest of the season.
Another domestic striker with a fairly high number of goals, up to this point in the 2024-2025 V-League, is Nguyen Van Quyet (Hanoi FC), with 5 goals. Nguyen Van Quyet is also a very stable player in terms of performance in the domestic league. However, because Van Quyet only plays as a striker, not a center forward, his number of goals rarely exceeds 15 goals/season. Therefore, Van Quyet's ability to compete for the top scorer title with foreign players is not as high as Tien Linh's ability.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/cuoc-dua-vua-pha-luoi-v-league-rat-nong-du-vang-xuan-son-tien-linh-co-the-tao-soc-185250210102551471.htm
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