1. The victory of U23 Vietnam over U23 Kuwait was not very convincing when the opponent lost more than the excellence of our young men. In the opening match, at first glance, U23 Vietnam was slightly better than the West Asian team. However, the professional statistics said otherwise, the team of coach Hoang Anh Tuan only had more goals (of which 2/3 were due to the opponent's mistakes). However, with 3 favorable opening points, U23 Vietnam is facing the opportunity to win an early quarter-final ticket, once they beat U23 Malaysia at a reasonable level, in the confrontation taking place tonight (April 20).

U23 Vietnam will have to make many adjustments. Photo: VFF

3. U23 Malaysia is not better than coach Hoang Anh Tuan's team after what was shown in the opening match. But that does not mean that U23 Vietnam can easily win all 3 points to get a ticket to the quarterfinals. U23 Vietnam obviously needs to fix many problems to win, and one of the things that needs to change is the way they play football, instead of making too many fouls like in the opening match. Coach Hoang Anh Tuan's students do not play rough, but because of their poor skills, they often lose the ball, leading to making too many fouls. This needs to be different if they do not want to lose people like in the match against U23 Kuwait. Playing with concentration, limiting individual mistakes, U23 Vietnam can achieve good results to open the way to the quarterfinals, otherwise, if VAR continues to intervene, it will be very difficult to defeat Malaysia. 3. Scoring 3 goals in the opening match is clearly a great achievement, but looking back, everyone can see that U23 Vietnam was a bit lucky when U23 Kuwait made mistakes in all the goals conceded by this team. Therefore, it is difficult for coach Hoang Anh Tuan to be satisfied with his team's attack.

if they want to defeat Malaysia and soon win a ticket to the quarter-finals. Photo: VFF

The U23 Vietnam attack must be different from the deployment of siege plans to the ability to turn opportunities into goals more effectively. Not only adjusting the attack plans, scoring efficiency, even the defense which has only conceded 1 goal on the 11m mark also needs to be different. It is necessary to find the most cohesive common voice instead of revealing many gaps from both sides like in the opening match. This is of course not easy, but it must be minimized if we want to defeat Malaysia and win a ticket to the next round.