'Endoscopy' of V-League 2016 striker

(Baonghean.vn) - After 16 rounds, the V-League 2016 has gone through 112 matches and there are exactly 112 players scoring goals (not counting 5 players who scored own goals) with 331 goals, an average of 2.96 goals/match. SLNA has 7 players who have scored 22 goals, an average of 1.32 goals/match, far below the general statistics of V-League 2016.

Looking at the 2016 V-League Golden Boot, the top of the list is still the foreign players who are quite familiar to Vietnamese fans: Hoang Vu Samson (Hanoi T&T), Gaston Merlo (SHB Da Nang) with 12 goals. Next is Pape Omar (FLC Thanh Hoa) with 11 goals, Uche Iheruome (Sanna Khanh Hoa BVN) with 10 goals, also players of the teams in the top group. Midfielders Vu Minh Tuan (Than Quang Ninh), Dinh Thanh Trung (QNK Quang Nam) with 7 goals are leading the domestic Golden Boot and ranked 9th in the Golden Boot list.

Vu Minh Tuan (blue shirt) and Dinh Thanh Trung (QNK Quang Nam) are the domestic top scorers with 7 goals.

Surprisingly, the list of players who have assisted goals in many seasons, up to this point, are all domestic players, Nghiem Xuan Tu (Than Quang Ninh), Hoang Dinh Tung (FLC Thanh Hoa) 6 times, and Dinh Thanh Trung (QNK Quang Nam) 5 times. Foreign players are not good at assisting?! Compared to the entire list of top scorers, Dinh Thanh Trung is the player who has made the most important contribution to the Quang Nam team in both scoring and assisting. Surprisingly, "Saint Errol Stevens" (Hai Phong) of the team at the top of the rankings has only scored 8 goals.

By the end of round 16, SLNA had only 7 players scoring, more than Dong Thap, XSKT Can Tho and equal to the number of Hai Phong players scoring. Leading the way were FLC Thanh Hoa, B.Binh Duong, and Saigon FC, all with 10 players on the goal-scoring list.

Analyzing SLNA, strikers Odat, Baba, Tuan Tai scored 14 goals (accounting for 63.6% of the total goals), the midfield scored 8 goals, including Phi Son with 4 goals, Van Vinh with 2 goals, Khac Ngoc, Ngoc Hai with 1 goal each. Surprisingly, 7/22 goals of SLNA were scored from long shots, 80% of goals were from counter-attacks based on speed. That proves that SLNA is not good at creating opportunities by controlling the ball, then suddenly creating passes for the forwards to score. The style of play without a player in charge of "dealing cards" has been making it easy for opponents to neutralize the style of play of the Nghe An team.

Currently, Phi Son is the player who has scored 4 goals and has 3 assists, this is a player who is achieving high performance in SLNA. Is it possible to ask Phi Son to play inside to do more assisting duties?

Nghe An audiences are "criticizing" Baba, but in terms of efficiency, SLNA's foreign players have also scored 12 goals and are only behind the foreign players of SHB.Da Nang (15 goals), FLC Thanh Hoa and Can Tho (both 13 goals), equal in number of goals with Hai Phong and above many other teams.

In the last round, SLNA's coaching staff sent many young players onto the field to try their hand at improving their scoring efficiency. Midfielder Thanh Phong just successfully assisted Baba to score against S.Khanh Hoa. Although Tuan Tai is not really sharp, he is like a breath of fresh air in SLNA's playing style.

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