Nam Dinh – SLNA: 'Smart at home' meets 'foolish in the market'
(Baonghean.vn) - This season, Thanh Nam football team is taking full advantage of playing at home. Meanwhile, coach Nguyen Duc Thang and his team have shown their incompetence in away matches.
Before round 18, Nam Dinh had played 9 matches at Thien Truong Stadium in V.League 2019. With 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, Nam Dinh is one of the teams with the most impressive home record. Just put the number of points won at Thien Truong Stadium (20 points) next to the number of points won at the opponent's stadium (2 points) after 17 rounds, it is enough to see how well Dinh Xuan Viet and his teammates have taken advantage of the home field.
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| Nam Dinh just defeated Thanh Hoa with a score of 4-2 in round 16. Photo: VPF |
Observing the recent matches of coach Nguyen Van Dung and his team at V.League 2019, everyone can see the great value of Thien Truong Stadium for Thanh Nam team. Under the enthusiastic cheers of more than 10,000 home fans, Nam Dinh players became a destructive machine. It is not surprising that in the list of "victims" of Dinh Xuan Viet and his teammates, there are the defending champion Hanoi and the runner-up Thanh Hoa.
Therefore, hosting SLNA in round 18 is a great opportunity for the home team Thien Truong to win all 3 points and continue to fly high on the rankings. In particular, the Nghe An team is showing quite poor performance on away matches this season. Since the 2-0 victory over SHB Da Nang in round 6, coach Nguyen Duc Thang's team has only known draws and losses in the last 6 times "bringing the bell to strike in foreign lands" (drawing 3, losing 3).
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| SLNA (yellow shirt) just lost on HAGL's field with a score of 2-3 in round 17. Photo: VPF |
Not only that, in addition to their poor away form, SLNA also faces a crisis in terms of personnel. Entering the match against Nam Dinh, the Nghe An team will not have the services of the foreign duo Olaha - Memovic, because they have received 3 yellow cards. This is a huge loss for SLNA, because the importance of Memovic and Olaha is indisputable. It seems that the visit to Thien Truong Stadium by coach Nguyen Duc Thang and his team is "less good, more bad".
However, that does not mean that SLNA's mission of defeating Nam Dinh is impossible. Remember, in the second leg of the 2018 V.League, the Nghe An team excellently defeated the home team Nam Dinh with a score of 3-2. In football, nothing can be predicted. The match between Nam Dinh and SLNA will take place at 5:00 p.m. on July 28.
