15:00 September 15, Vietnam Olympic vs Iran Olympic: The first test of fire!

This afternoon, the Vietnamese Olympic team will face their first and perhaps biggest challenge in Group H when they face the Iranian Olympic team. The opponent is very strong, but certainly, coach Toshiya Muira's team will not lose confidence because of that.

Vu Minh Tuan and teammates determined to get points against Iran

WILL IT PLAY 4-4-2?

Coach Miura really likes the 3-5-2 formation., but in reality, the recent training sessions have shown that the Vietnamese Olympic team seems to have not adapted to this style of play, so in the team formation session to prepare for the match against Olympic Iran yesterday morning (September 14), Coach Miura returned to the familiar 4-4-2 formation.

If in the previous days, the Vietnamese players were trained in fast attack coordination exercises, yesterday, defensive exercises were considered the main focus of the training session. It seems that witnessing the tall and dangerous Iranian opponent through the recent training sessions has made the Japanese coach consider returning to the familiar defensive-counterattacking strategy. And if so, the 4-4-2 formation is considered a reasonable solution. This is also the formation of the Vietnamese Olympic players who played most smoothly and effectively in the friendly match with Bangladesh a few days ago (won 4-2).

DETERMINED TO GET POINTS!

In fact, both the Vietnamese and Iranian coaches do not have much information about their opponents. What they have is only through video footage of a few past matches, because the last confrontation between the two teams took place 4 years ago (Asian Games 2010 in Guangzhou, China and that time Iran won 1-0).

However, looking at the current reality of the two football backgrounds and through what the Iranian youth team has shown in training sessions, many people do not hesitate to rate them higher than the Vietnamese Olympic team with superior physique and technique. However, goalkeeper Buu Ngoc said: “We don't care who they are, we just know when we enter the field we will play with all our might.! Honestly, our team doesn't think much about winning or losing, just trying to do our best in this first match...".

Meanwhile, Iran Olympic head coach Nelo Vingada said in a training session 2 days ago: "To be honest, I don't know much about the Vietnam Olympic team, but I watched the training session and learned about them, I think this is not a bad team. Therefore, I always remind my players to be vigilant in the match on the afternoon of September 15."

If the Portuguese coach of the Iranian Olympic team did not want to talk about winning maximum points in the match with the Vietnamese Olympic team, then the Vietnamese coach Miura said that this would be a real challenge for his students and in order to be able to move on to the next round, the Vietnamese Olympic team must try to get points in the first match of Group H before thinking further.

PREDICTION: 1-1

Did you know?

The 17th Asian Games men's football competition has 29 participating teams divided into 8 groups (5 groups of 4 teams, 3 groups of 3 teams). The teams compete in a round robin with the top 2 teams from each group advancing to the round of 16.

Vietnam is in Group H with Iran (playing on September 15) and Kyrgyzstan (September 22).

Early match results

Table A

Saudi Arabia – Laos: 3-0

Korea – Malaysia: 3-0

Table C

Singapore – Tajikistan:0-1

Oman – Palestine:0-2

Table D

Iraq – Nepal:4-0

Japan – Kuwait:4-1

According to Bongdaplus