Xuan Son did not recover in March.
The first matches of the third qualifying round of the 2027 Asian Cup will take place in March and June this year. It is highly likely that during this period, striker Nguyen Xuan Son will not have time to recover from a very serious injury in the second leg of the 2024 AFF Cup final on the evening of January 5 in Bangkok. Xuan Son broke his leg and will need several months to be able to train again.
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Teammates always stand by Xuan Son
This is also the time when other teammates in the Vietnam team will try to do Xuan Son's work, trying to maintain the team's strength in the hands of coach Kim Sang-sik. Besides Xuan Son, the Vietnam team still has very promising strikers, including Nguyen Tien Linh, Pham Tuan Hai, Nguyen Van Toan and Bui Vi Hao.
All of these players played well at the AFF Cup 2024. Tien Linh scored 4 goals at the recently concluded Southeast Asian Championship, equal to the achievements of Patrik Gustavsson, Suphanat Mueanta (Thailand), Shawal Anuar (Singapore), tied for second place in the AFF Cup top scorer list, only behind Nguyen Xuan Son (7 goals).
Pham Tuan Hai scored 1 goal at the AFF Cup. If we count the situation where he kicked the ball and caused Pansa Hemviboon (Thailand) to score an own goal in the second leg of the final, that is 2 goals. These were the 2 most important goals of the tournament, scored in the second leg of the final right on Thai soil, bringing the championship trophy to the Vietnamese team.
Tien Linh will replace Xuan Son in the early stages of the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers.
Van Toan and Vi Hao each scored 1 goal at the AFF Cup 2024. The positive sign is that Van Toan's current injury can be recovered before the Vietnam national team gathers again next March. At that time, coach Kim Sang-sik will be less worried about personnel issues in the striker line.
In the third qualifying round of the 2027 Asian Cup, the Vietnamese team will be in Group F, along with Malaysia, Laos and Nepal. Among them, apart from Malaysia, which is considered to be at a similar level to the Vietnamese team, the Lao and Nepalese teams are quite weak. The Lao team just lost 1-4 to the Vietnamese team in the group stage of the 2024 AFF Cup.
Therefore, the Vietnamese players will mainly focus on defeating the main opponent Malaysia on June 10 (first leg) and March 31, 2026 (second leg). In the first leg on June 10, Nguyen Xuan Son may not have recovered yet, the other players will try to do Xuan Son's job, defeating Malaysia on the opponent's field. In the second leg on March 31, 2026, Xuan Son will have returned to the team, so we will have the best force.
I believe that coach Kim Sang-sik's team is still the strongest team in Group F of the 3rd qualifying round of the 2027 Asian Cup. We are capable of topping this group to get a ticket to the final round of the Asian Championship in 2 years. According to the regulations, only the top 6 teams in each group of the 3rd qualifying round of the Asian Cup will have tickets to the final round. The remaining tickets belong to 18 teams currently in the 3rd qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup in Asia.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/xuan-son-chan-thuong-doi-tuyen-viet-nam-se-ra-sao-tai-vong-loai-asian-cup-185250107144713824.htm
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