Why does Coach Park absolutely trust Cong Phuong? What 'weapons' has the Vietnam National Team prepared to welcome Malaysia?

The reason why Coach Park absolutely trusts Cong Phuong

As planned, on October 9, Coach Park Hang Seo will announce 23 players for the match against Malaysia at My Dinh Stadium in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

Looking at the current list, it is not difficult to confirm that the two names that will be eliminated by the Korean strategist at the last minute will be in the attack line - a line of play that seems to have an excess of players compared to the midfield or defense.

Although there will be fewer strikers, Cong Phuong will definitely be the name that coach Park Hang-seo will keep, despite the fact that the striker currently playing for Sint Truidense has not played for a long time.

This decision of the Korean strategist is of course not surprising, because everyone knows how much trust coach Park Hang-seo has placed in Cong Phuong in all past tournaments.

Coach Park Hang Seo still trusts Cong Phuong...

Counting youth tournaments to the national team level, Cong Phuong has scored 5 goals and many assists in matches against Malaysia from the AFF Cup, U23 Asia qualifiers...

The belief in Cong Phuong is even greater, because at this time the center forward position in the Vietnam team is really not much or is having professional problems when Tien Linh is still quite young, while Anh Duc is not in the best condition.

Although the captain of the Vietnamese team still has great faith in Cong Phuong, it seems that to convince coach Park Hang Seo to get a ticket to the main team, the striker currently playing in Belgium needs to make more efforts.

What 'weapons' is Coach Park preparing to welcome Malaysia?

While Malaysia played a friendly match with Sri Lanka, Vietnam only had 2 practice matches with the U22 team and did not win any of them (0-0, 2-2 draws). Speaking to the press, Coach Park said: “Because of the absence of Hanoi players, I could not give the team a clear tactical training session during the first training session. The team's tactics and playing style depend a lot on the Hanoi players. We have to wait for them to return from North Korea before we can have detailed calculations to face Malaysia.”

Coach Park’s decision to retain Nguyen Huu Tuan (HCMC), an “anti-Western” central defender, as a backup for the central defender position, is reasonable. The presence of naturalized Malaysian players on both wings means that the Vietnamese national team needs solid “anti-Western” defenders.

Vietnam team in training session. Photo: HV

It proves that Coach Park Hang Seo is very interested in Malaysia's wing attack strength, where the Malaysian team owns 3 naturalized players who are good at playing on the wing, including Mohamadou Sumareh (Gambian origin), Matthew Davies (Australian origin) and Lawrence Corbin-Ong (British origin).

The forward line of the Vietnam National Team at the moment does not have a good center forward when Anh Duc is showing signs of decline due to age, except for the consistency and variation from Van Toan. He maintains a very high level of performance, greatly improving his finishing ability.

Or will coach Park play defensively and find a way to counterattack to win like in the AFF Cup?

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Juventus moved to the top of Serie A after beating Inter 2-1 away from home.

Ronaldo did not score directly but had a good match. (Photo: Reuters).

Winning 2-1, Juve has 19 points after 7 rounds and has risen to the top of Serie A. Meanwhile, Inter lost their first match of the season and had to accept second place with 18 points./.

Coach Solskjaer defends his players after defeat

The Norwegian coach said he was still satisfied with some individuals in MU's 0-1 loss to Newcastle in round 8 of the Premier League.

In Man Utd's 0-1 defeat, Marcus Rashford was one of the names that received a lot of criticism. In the role of a striker, the English player played poorly and did not have a single shot on target.

Rashford did not leave any significant mark in the match against Newcastle. Photo: Reuters.

"It was a disappointing match. We started badly with many sloppy passes. In the second half, MU controlled the game but could not create chances," the Norwegian coach added.

The loss to Newcastle caused MU to drop to 12th place on the rankings with 9 points.