Vietnam national football team vs UAE and Thailand: Question marks on the attack line

Accordingly, this training session of the Vietnam national team will start from October 28 and end after the match against Thailand on November 19. This is a fairly long training session and coach Park Hang-seo also has the basis to test some new options.

One of the names that surprised many people the most was central defender Le Van Dai in this training session. The 23-year-old player from Thanh Hoa is a new discovery of coach Park Hang-seo. This player has an ideal height of 1m82 and weighs 78kg.

Coach Park’s call-up of an additional central defender shows that the Vietnam national team needs more depth for Duy Manh and Tien Dung’s positions. During the previous training session, Coach Park asked Pham Xuan Manh to practice in this position and was unsuccessful. That forced Coach Park to experiment with some more options in case Duy Manh and Tien Dung are overloaded or injured.

The presence of Hoang Thinh helps the Vietnamese national team's midfield have more strength. Photo: FBNV

In the midfield, the most notable addition is midfielder Ngo Hoang Thinh. The Ho Chi Minh City FC player has the advantage of physique, a powerful playing style and is not afraid of collision. This is a rare type of midfielder who intercepts and recovers the ball in the V.League.

When facing UAE and Thailand, teams with good ball control, Hoang Thinh is considered a factor to disrupt the opponent's play, strengthening the steel in the midfield. In fact, the duo Tuan Anh - Hung Dung are playing well, with comprehensive attack and defense, but still lack the strength factor.

Besides, striker Ngan Van Dai is also a new player of the Vietnam National Team in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. The striker of Hanoi Club has not been in good form this season, scoring only 1 goal in 7 starting matches, 16 appearances.

Trong Hung is expected to replace Phan Van Duc but has not played yet. Photo: Trung Kien

The player born in 1992 worked with coach Park Hang-seo at the 2019 Asian Cup, but his presence surprised many people. Ngan Van Dai's performance at the club and the national team has not been verified.

Not only that, striker Nguyen Viet Phong continued to be called up by coach Park in this training session. This season, the player born in 1992 played 11/17 starting matches, scoring exactly 1 goal. Viet Phong's performance when he was put on the field against Malaysia was not very impressive.

In addition, coach Park Hang-seo also has strikers Van Toan, Cong Phuong, Anh Duc and Ha Minh Tuan. Of these, only Van Toan and Minh Tuan have achieved good form in the V.League. Striker Minh Tuan has scored 7 goals and Van Toan has 9 goals.

However, although Van Toan played well for his club, in the two recent matches against Malaysia and Indonesia, the HAGL player played quite poorly compared to his actual form. Striker Anh Duc showed signs of age, his running steps also became heavy. Meanwhile, Cong Phuong gradually lost his sense of the ball.

Coach Park Hang-seo once admitted that he was worried about the performance of his strikers. Photo: Trung Kien

This time, Tien Linh is busy with the U22 Vietnam team so he is absent. And therefore, Vietnamese fans have the right to worry about the attacking personnel that Coach Park has chosen. Remember that we were unable to score against Thailand. In the match against Malaysia, there was only 1 goal by Quang Hai.

Against an underdog like Indonesia, 2/3 of Vietnam’s goals were scored by defenders. One came from a corner kick and one was a penalty taken by Que Ngoc Hai. In fact, Vietnam is lacking goals like the brilliant combination between Trong Hoang and Tien Linh on October 15 in Bali.

Coach Park Hang-seo also has reasons and grounds to complain that the current V.League has deprived domestic strikers of playing opportunities and he himself is also worried about the performance of the national team players.

With 27 players, Coach Park Hang-seo will eliminate 4 players to officially register for the matches against UAE and Thailand. Of course, history has proven that there are not many opportunities for new players. Trong Hung is still an unknown, Viet Phong is dim. The Vietnam national team is really facing a difficult problem to solve in the attack./.

Coach Park Hang-seo removed Nguyen Manh and called Hoang Thinh to play against UAE and Thailand.

(Baonghean.vn) - Immediately after the end of V.League 2019, coach Park Hang-seo announced the list of players for the Vietnamese national team to prepare for two matches against UAE (November 14) and Thailand (November 19), within the framework of Group G, the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Asia.