It takes 158 minutes and 14 shots to score 1 goal, what's happening with SLNA?
(Boanghean.vn)- With a force that is not too strong, including many young players, SLNA often chooses a defensive counter-attacking style of play in V.League 2020. However, the ability to take advantage of opportunities of SLNA strikers is below average.
Looking at each individual, it is clear that SLNA is not a team with a high quality squad in V.League. However, it must be said that the Nghe An team is facing many difficulties when key players such as Hoang Van Khanh, Pham Xuan Manh, Cao Xuan Thang are injured. In the recent match against Nam Dinh Club, veteran Dinh Dong was also unable to play.
Players born in 1999 like Thai Ba Sang, Tran Dinh Tien, Dang Van Lam may have played confidently in the early stages of the season, but V.League is a harsh environment, requiring experience and a strong spirit. Of course, in front of a stadium with a lot of pressure from the stands like Nam Dinh, it is understandable that young players cannot stand firm.
SLNA’s force is not only weak but also very young. Nghe An fans never imagined that one day, a player like Tuan Tai would be the mainstay of the team. In the starting lineup of SLNA against Nam Dinh, including foreign players, the oldest player was Sy Nam (1993), the rest were born in 1995, 1996 and 1999.
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| Young SLNA players are starting to feel the heat of V.League. Photo: Trung Kien |
The defense is constantly depleted, and SLNA's offense is also the worst in V.League 2020 after 7 matches. And one of the reasons why SLNA failed with its current defensive counter-attacking style is the poor form of its strikers, including foreign players.
Since the goal against Ba Ria – Vung Tau in the National Cup, Ho Tuan Tai has not scored after 7 matches in the V.League. The striker born in 1995 played 617 minutes, 3 matches in the position of center forward, this is a very sad achievement.
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| An attack by central defender Gustavo Santos. Photo: Trung Kien |
In recent matches, Phan Van Duc has dropped deeper to play a role in creating for his teammates. Being closely guarded, he no longer has the opportunity to score. And when Van Duc does not score, SLNA cannot win. An entire team cannot rely on the performance of a single domestic player, who has just returned from injury.
Even more disappointing for a famous football training center like SLNA, if counting all 7 matches in V.League 2020, SLNA launched a total of 56 shots, but only 20 of them were on target, 4 goals. The shooting accuracy rate was only 35%, many times the ball hit the crossbar and the post.
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| Phan Van Duc's small shoulders cannot carry the entire SLNA attack. Photo: Hai Hoang |
With such an average scoring frequency, if SLNA cannot improve, by the end of the first leg of V.League 2020, SLNA will only score 7-8 goals. This number is even lower than the scoring record of a quality foreign player in V.League, not to mention the performance of a team. There is no doubt that SLNA's foreign players are of poor quality, even far below the average level of V.League.
Ahead of SLNA in the first leg are matches against Quang Nam at Tam Ky Stadium, then welcoming Hong Linh Ha Tinh and Viettel at Vinh Stadium. In the last 3 matches of the first leg of V.League 2020, SLNA must visit Than Quang Ninh, meet HAGL at home and visit Hai Phong. Not too worried about SLNA's chance to enter the top 8 teams, but to make everything safer and more certain, Coach Quang Truong and his students still have a lot of work to do.
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