No more Xuan Son - Tien Linh duel
Before the V-League returned after the Tet holiday, Xuan Son (Nam Dinh), Tien Linh (Binh Duong) and Artur De Melo (Hanoi Police Club) were leading the list of top scorers in the V-League 2024-2025, with 7 goals.
Tien Linh is a strong candidate for the title of top scorer of V-League 2024-2025
It is very unfortunate that Xuan Son had to leave this race due to injury, when the striker of Nam Dinh team was on the way to regaining his high form in the domestic tournament. After Xuan Son was no longer present in the race for the top scorer of V-League 2024-2025, the responsibility of winning the award for a member of the Vietnamese team belonged to Nguyen Tien Linh.
Tien Linh (right) plays in the domestic tournament
Despite the changes in the technical area of Binh Duong Football Club in recent times, Tien Linh still maintains his position as the main striker of the Southeast team. In the context that Binh Duong has not found a promising foreign striker to supplement the attack, Tien Linh's goal-scoring role is even more important.
Compared to previous seasons, in the current season, Tien Linh has shown to be more comprehensive. In addition to his strong ability to score with his head, Tien Linh's ability to score with his feet has also become more and more sophisticated. As a veteran of Binh Duong Club, Tien Linh has a great advantage in that his teammates around him always focus on passing the ball, whenever they detect Tien Linh in a position where he can receive the ball and shoot.
On the contrary, Tien Linh's disadvantage is that Binh Duong's attack line, from the attacking midfielder position to the striker, does not have good foreign players to carry out the task of sweeping and "breaking down" the opponent's defenders, making Binh Duong's domestic players very difficult to compete physically with the foreign players on the opposing side.
However, this is something that Tien Linh and his young teammates around him such as Vi Hao, Viet Cuong, Minh Khoa must overcome, finding ways to help the whole team overcome the current pressure. In particular, Tien Linh's goal-scoring role is the most important. The more goals Tien Linh scores, the more likely his team will overcome difficulties.
Tien Linh's formidable opponents
Tien Linh's opponents in the race for the title of top scorer of V-League 2024-2025, in addition to Artur De Melo (Hanoi Police Club, 7 goals), also include Lucas Vinicius (Hai Phong, 6 goals), Geovane Magno (Ha Tinh, 4 goals).
The remaining domestic strikers are quite far from the top group.
These are all famous strikers. However, their teams have more or less encountered problems in the current season. With Artur De Melo, the Hanoi Police Club (CAHN) has to compete on many different fronts (V-League, National Cup, Southeast Asian Cup C1), so Artur De Melo cannot always maintain his best physical condition in the V-League.
Lucas Vinicius (often called Lucao) is a very dangerous goalscorer, but his Hai Phong team is in the bottom group of the rankings, meaning that the Hai Phong team is not consistent, making the ability to supply the ball from midfield to Lucas Vinicius not always smooth.
As for Geovane Magno, Ha Tinh Football Club of this player identified them as the "underdog" team in V-League. Attacking is sometimes not Ha Tinh's priority in each match. This team focuses more on defense, especially when playing on the opponent's field. Therefore, Geovane Magno's solitary operation in the North Central team's forward line is a common occurrence. That also affects Geovane Magno's goal-scoring.
In that context, Tien Linh still has many opportunities to continue to lead and aim for the title of top scorer of V-League 2024-2025. Tien Linh has the support of domestic fans, because after Anh Duc (also a player of Binh Duong) was crowned top scorer of V-League 2017, no pure domestic striker has been able to do the same. Tien Linh is the biggest hope among domestic strikers at the moment.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/xuan-son-chan-thuong-tien-linh-don-doc-dua-vua-pha-luoi-v-league-voi-ngoai-binh-185250205165555383.htm
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