Van Toan is less 'beautiful', what chance for Thanh Nhan and Dinh Bac?

Coach Troussier has called up 7 strikers to the Vietnam national team, however, all 7 of these names have not scored any goals in the V-League and the national first division 2023 - 2024. Not only worried about the striker position, now Mr. Troussier also has to consider how to use personnel in the right striker position, where there is a "three-horse" competition between Van Toan and 2 young players Thanh Nhan and Dinh Bac.

Van Toan has not been in good form recently.

In the Nam Dinh team shirt, Van Toan has not shown much after the last 3 matches in V-League. He has started 2 times and came off the bench 1 time. In the first 205 minutes of Van Toan for the new club, he has relatively modest statistics.

According to Sportbase data, in the last 3 matches in V-League, on average, the striker born in 1996 only had 0.67 key passes (passes with the opportunity to create a goal) per match, and had 3 shots on target per match. Van Toan's most impressive statistic is his ability to successfully dribble with a difference of up to 88% after 3 matches. However, the most important thing is that Van Toan has not scored a goal yet.

Why is more than 1/3 of the Vietnamese team under 23 years old?

In the 3 matches at FIFA Days in October, the left forward position of the Vietnamese team was rotated between Van Toan and Dinh Bac. Coach Troussier used Dinh Bac in 2 matches, while Van Toan only played in the match against the Chinese team. Overall, the performance of both did not leave much of an impression. In the November training session to prepare for the 2nd qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup, the 68-year-old captain added Nguyen Thanh Nhan, the top scorer of the 2023 national first division.

Dinh Bac (15) was tested quite a lot by coach Troussier.

In the context of Van Toan's poor form, Thanh Nhan and Dinh Bac will be the hope of Coach Troussier. Currently, Dinh Bac is dominating when he has played 2 matches for the Vietnam team during the FIFA Days in October. In the V-League arena, the player born in 2004 also played a total of 140 minutes in the first 2 matches for Quang Nam Club, but he could not play in round 3 due to injury.

In the first two training sessions with the Vietnam national team, Dinh Bac had to practice separately, but he returned to practice with the whole team in the third training session. Dinh Bac still showed good form in the recent matches in Quang Nam, but V-League is a very fierce arena with extremely high collision, which partly made Dinh Bac quite "scared" in his first matches at the highest level of Vietnamese football.

As for Nguyen Thanh Nhan, he and Le Van Do are two names playing in the national first division that coach Troussier has called up to the Vietnam national team. Thanh Nhan's performance is being questioned, as he has not had a good performance from the 2024 U.23 Asian qualifiers to the first rounds of the first division with PVF-CAND.

However, Thanh Nhan is Coach Troussier's favorite player. The time the French captain worked at PVF was enough for the two to understand each other. Coach Troussier really likes wingers like Thanh Nhan. He is a fast player, capable of maneuvering and creating breakthroughs, and his personal technique is also not to be underestimated. In particular, Thanh Nhan's impressive pressing intensity could also be the key to always being favored by Coach Troussier.

Thanh Nhan used to be a student of coach Troussier at PVF.

According to statistics from Soccerway, Thanh Nhan is one of the 5 names most used by Coach Troussier in the U.23 Vietnam squad. The 20-year-old player played in 4 out of 5 matches at the 32nd SEA Games, along with 2 matches in the 2024 U.23 Asian qualifiers. At the FIFA Days in October, Thanh Nhan was even called up to the Vietnam national team, but he was not included in the official list to participate in the friendly matches against China, Korea and Uzbekistan.

Thanh Nhan and Dinh Bac are two young names, this duo is expected to create freshness in the attacks of the Vietnam team. At a time when senior Van Toan is not in good form, this is the opportunity for Thanh Nhan and Dinh Bac to prove to experts that they are capable of playing for the Vietnam team.

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