Commentator Quang Tung points out the positive points and issues that Song Lam Nghe An needs to improve.

Encouraging results

As the person who directly commented on the match between Hanoi and SLNA, commentator Quang Tung assessed: First, in terms of results, it was a success for SLNA. They are the team that has not lost until now, leading the table after 5 rounds and keeping a clean sheet. That is a positive result for a team with many disturbances, with many young players only 20, 21 years old, with many players who can be said to be inexperienced.

Looking at SLNA's force, we can clearly see that they are not a strong team, they still lack many things. After each year, the loss of force makes SLNA have to pull, have to use new people, but each year people see something positive in SLNA. This year, fortunately for SLNA, that positivity came earlier, right from the beginning of the tournament.

SLNA's positive signals this year came from the beginning of the season. Photo: Trung Kien

Perhaps during the recent Covid-19 pandemic, SLNA players focused more on their work. Those 2 months gave them more time to accumulate, leading to the fact that when the ball returned, they were ready.

SLNA's playing style at this time, based on such a force, is hard to call explosive, but they know how to "measure their coat according to their cloth", know how to calculate with specific forces, with specific targets, then use what playing style. When playing at Hang Day Stadium in Hanoi, SLNA played well, played in the most reasonable way.

Many people may feel sorry for SLNA that they should have scored more goals, but 1 goal is enough because it has been many years since SLNA has won against Hanoi at Hang Day. That is a memorable and proud milestone, SLNA may still have many problems this season, and have not set a high goal for SLNA at this time, but the current achievement is very encouraging.

SLNA has changed the way of playing football

In the last match, Coach Quang Truong's smile said a lot. The idea of ​​approaching the match, the way SLNA players transformed that idea before the opponent. They are very young people, some of them are in their first season in V.League but they played a very orderly and disciplined football.

SLNA's physical strength at the moment is not a strong point. That is a very remarkable point compared to what is called traditional, now it is not a strength anymore. However, there are points that are progressing, going up in a direction that I find very positive.

Without having to "cut nails and cut iron", SLNA still got what it wanted. Photo: Trung Kien

Instead of chopping, using a lot of strength, even a "cut and slash" style of play as people used to say, now SLNA can still play defensively with awareness of position, how to stick to, receive the opponent's situation, understand the opponent's strengths to neutralize.

In the Hanoi match, we saw very few situations where SLNA was penalized in dangerous areas. Very few situations where SLNA players received cards, there were no malicious tackles. Those are the points that I think have big differences, that is the maturity not only of the players on the field but also the maturity of the whole team.

They have changed after many years. That change came from previous years, but typically in the match against Hanoi. We try to imagine how a team plays defense to not lose, but against a strong team like Hanoi, SLNA had more than that, had a win, had situations to score more goals.

SLNA's defense system does not rely on reckless plays, but instead relies on defensive thinking. Photo: Duc Anh

Most importantly, they have created an image that they can play a type of football that the idea of ​​playing, it does not mean using a lot of means to serve victory. They can still achieve their goals by playing football according to their standards.

SLNA's imperfections

In the first half of the Hanoi - SLNA match, the home team had 3 chances to score. Those chances came from the moments when someone in the SLNA defense made a mistake, playing loosely in terms of position and technical handling. However, overall, the SLNA players did their best.

Thus, the experience and technical perfection of young SLNA players must be perfected and accumulated to be able to convert counter-attack opportunities, especially in the second half, into goals.

SLNA is playing football according to its standards and capabilities. Graphics: TK

With Peter Samuel being very strong, he can still play like that in the 90th minute, but the satellites next to him must deploy 2v2, 3v3 attacks in a way that makes the counter-attack advantage more specific, the victory becomes more distinct, more certain for SLNA. Those are the things that SLNA needs to practice more. Those cannot be called strengths yet.

When SLNA's defense had the ball, it only took them 1 or 2 moves for the ball to find Phan Van Duc, Ho Tuan Tai, and Peter Samuel, showing that the idea of ​​playing defensive counter-attacks was relatively coherent and relatively clear. They understood that Hanoi had many problems.

SLNA has very good and reasonable playing ideas, but besides will and ideas, they still have to consolidate their experience to make their counter-attacking defense more tight and have to hone their counter-attacks to become more effective.

Specifically, SLNA needs to take advantage of Peter Samuel's strength alongside Van Duc's agility and Ho Tuan Tai's decisiveness to create a trident with more colors and highlights. I think SLNA will become more complete with this generation of players.

Song Lam Nghe An defeated Hanoi, temporarily leading V.League 2020

(Baonghean.vn) - Dang Van Lam's long-range shot helped SLNA win a narrow victory over Hanoi right at Hang Day Stadium, round 5 of V.League 2020. This victory is not only meaningful in terms of points, but it also erases the Nghe team's streak of not winning at Hang Day Stadium.