List of Vietnam National Team for Asian Cup 2023: Keeping Duy Manh at the last minute; Cong Phuong speaks out for the first time about being eliminated and the difference from Coach Troussier

List of Vietnam National Team for Asian Cup 2023: Keeping Duy Manh at the last minute

According to the latest list announced by AFC, exactly 1 day before the 2023 Asian Cup Finals kick off, the Vietnam National Team has said goodbye to 4 players: Pham Van Luan, Le Van Do, Bui Vi Hao and Trieu Viet Hung. Do Duy Manh was retained at the last minute.

Supercomputer makes surprising prediction about Vietnam's chances of winning the Asian Cup

Opta's supercomputer predicts that Japan has the highest chance of winning the 2023 Asian Cup, while Vietnam is slightly better than Thailand and Indonesia.

The 2023 Asian Cup is about to kick off and data company Opta is using a supercomputer to predict the chances of winning the championship of the teams present in Qatar. Accordingly, the results announced by Opta show that Japan is the team with the highest chance of winning the Asian football championship. The odds of Japan winning the championship according to Opta's supercomputer are 24.6%. The team of the rising sun also has a 50% chance of reaching the semi-finals. This is the rate given after the supercomputer performed 10,000 simulations.

In Southeast Asia, Vietnam is the most likely to win the Asian Cup. Opta points out that Vietnam has a 0.5% chance, ahead of Thailand with 0.4%, Indonesia and Malaysia both with 0.2%. The team with the lowest chance of winning the championship is Hong Kong with 0.1%.

Cong Phuong speaks out for the first time about being eliminated and the difference from coach Troussier

Recently, Sponichi newspaper had an interview with Cong Phuong, the striker they called “Vietnam’s Messi” when he used to wear the number 10 shirt. “I have never met a coach with such a strong and determined personality as him (Coach Troussier)”, Cong Phuong started the story.

Regarding his exclusion from the Vietnam national team squad for the 2023 Asian Cup, Cong Phuong had a very positive reaction. He said: “I don’t know what people around me think. Personally, I think it shows his passion for football. So I don’t have a bad impression of him.”

When asked how the Vietnam national team has changed since Mr. Troussier replaced Mr. Park Hang-seo as coach, Cong Phuong shared frankly. According to him, under the leadership of Coach Park Hang-seo, the focus is placed on the defense and there are many defensive exercises carried out in practice.

However, after taking over from his predecessor, Coach Troussier applied a 3-4-3 formation to control the ball more. “We can play on par with opponents of the same level, but if we put many people forward, there will be problems behind the defense,” said Cong Phuong.

Thai fans "watch Asian Cup 2023 for free" because of no copyright?

Currently, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country that does not have the copyright for the 2023 Asian Cup. For that reason, fans of the Golden Temple country are facing the prospect of being forced to "watch for free" on social media platforms.

In just 3 days, the 2023 Asian Cup will officially kick off in Qatar. But up to now, fans of the Golden Temple country are very disappointed when TV stations in Thailand are indifferent to buying the tournament's copyright. Notably, 23/24 participating teams have bought television copyright. Not only that, 201 countries and territories in the world have been able to bring the tournament to local audiences. It can be seen that the price to bring the 2023 Asian Cup to fans is not too high.

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