How is Cong Phuong renewed in Kiatisak's hands?

Against the not-so-strong away team T.Binh Dinh, there were only Rimario and defender Tan Tai who were considered "famous" at the tournament.V.League 2021Then Kiatisak's HAGL has the conditions to renew the squad.

For a long time, after trying his hand at the role of a striker without much success, Cong Phuong has been nailed to the attacking midfielder position in any tactical scheme of the national team and HAGL. At the mountain town team, coaches often arrange Cong Phuong and Van Toan on the 2 wings, playing as attacking midfielders for the foreign striker. If Van Toan has the strength of speed in counter-attacks on the right wing, Cong Phuong will promote his value in situations where he holds the ball and waits for the second line to advance.

Although he has not scored yet, Cong Phuong has left his mark. Photo: VPF

At HAGL, both Xuan Truong and Tuan Anh are assigned to control the game and create, so Cong Phuong's main job is to score or harass. For a long time, HAGL's midfield has been considered "attacking, not defending", so even if the defense line has 3 or 4 defenders, Mr. Hien's team is still considered "fragile". Therefore, the fact that coach Kiatisak, after only 2 months in the mountain town, changed the 3-5-2 formation to 3-3-2-2 is something that surprised many experts.

On the Pleiku field, seeing Van Toan playing alongside Brandao, many people felt sorry for the number 9 who could not use his speed. But in reality, with the opening goal and the assist, Van Toan deserved to be the best player of the match despite only playing for 45 minutes.

SureCoach Park Hang-seoand the national team's coaching board will pay attention to the new position of player Van Toan. Minh Vuong replacing Van Toan is due to injury rather than a change in the professional intentions of the HAGL coaching board. At this timeHAGLThe formation changed to 3-4-3, and Cong Phuong moved to the sidelines like in previous matches of the mountain town team.

This was the match where Cong Phuong was arranged with Tuan Anh, playing right behind Brandao. It is rare to see the trio of Xuan Truong, Tuan Anh, and Cong Phuong arranged to play next to each other like that and in fact Cong Phuong did a good job of "baiting", stretching the opponent's defenders and creating an assist for Van Toan to open the score. Having to play far from Binh Dinh's goal made it so that Cong Phuong did not have many opportunities to score.Cong Phuongpretending to fall in the 16.5m box in order to get a penalty (received a yellow card by the referee) partly demonstrated his helplessness when facing the opponent's aggressive defenders.

HAGL's new tactical diagram under coach Kiatisak. Photo: ONtivi

The fact that in the last 20 minutes, Coach Kiatisak had to bring in Viet Vuong to replace Tuan Anh to strengthen the steel, changing the formation to 3-4-2-1 showed that when the opponent attacked fiercely, pressing all over the field. This showed that both Cong Phuong and Van Toan were somewhat successful in their new roles in HAGL's attack. But when it came to defending to protect the favorable score, it was not yet proven, because Van Toan had to leave the field early, and Cong Phuong also had the support of Minh Vuong and Viet Vuong, players with better defensive skills.

First of all, it must be admitted that Kiatisak is a coach who likes to explore and take risks. The restructuring and renewal of HAGL's squad has not been as successful as expected. If the attack line has not established an overwhelming position, the 3-center-back formation still leaves great concerns. D. Memovic, in his second season playing for HAGL, still made elementary mistakes when the pressure from T. Binh Dinh increased.

But clearly, at leastKiatisakhas helped Van Toan and Cong Phuong to initially leave their mark when assigned new roles. Their success at the club will help coach Park have new options for the national team during the period when we do not have many goal scorers./.