Coach Park rescues Cong Phuong; Thai press is impatient about the poor performance of the national team's strikers

Thai press is impatient about the poor performance of Thailand's strikers before the match against Vietnam.

The Bangkokpost recently published a rather lengthy article about the importance and significance of the King's Cup for the Thai national team. The newspaper considers this to be one of the most important tournaments in Thai football, and also emphasizes that the King's Cup is an opportunity for the Thai national team to demonstrate "the beginning of a new era" for Thailand.

Bangkokpost is really worried about the Thai national team's attack line as recently, the above strikers have shown poor performance at their clubs.

However, Bangkokpost is really worried about the Thai national team's attack when recently, the above strikers have shown poor performance at the club. "It is really unlucky for coach Sirisak when the strikers are not in good form", Bangkokpost wrote.

Accordingly, two veteran strikers Teerasil Dangda and Adisak Kraisorn were still called up to the Thai national team despite Muangthong United's plea not to call them.

Striker Teerasil will have his 100th appearance in the upcoming match against the Vietnam national team. However, this veteran striker is showing poor form with only 3 goals in 14 matches of Muangthong United. Adisak's situation is not much better with only 2 goals after 8 appearances.

Supachai has only scored 1 goal for Buriram Utd in Thai League 2019.

“But what is even more alarming is the disastrous decline of young striker Supachai Chaided of Buriram United Club,” Bangkokpost sadly wrote. According to statistics of this newspaper, after 8 matches on the field, the striker who was just suspended by AFC for 2 matches at the 2020 AFC U23 Championship after hitting Dinh Trong has only scored 1 goal.

Therefore, all the expectations of the upcoming Thai national team are focused on the 16-year-old striker Suphanat Muenta as the striker from Buriram United is considered "hope for the future".

Dang Van Lam is ready to be a "military advisor" for coach Park.

Along with Luong Xuan Truong, Dang Van Lam is one of two Vietnamese players currently playing in Thailand. The “War Elephants” squad for the King’s Cup 2019 includes many players from Muangthong United.

This is considered an advantage for Van Lam as well as the Vietnam national team when this Vietnamese-Russian goalkeeper clearly understands the strengths and weaknesses of his teammates. Sharing in the first training session of the Vietnam national team in Buriram on the afternoon of June 2, Dang Van Lam affirmed: "In the Muangthong United team, there are many players playing for the Thai national team. This certainly helps me feel more confident when I understand them quite well. If the coaching staff asks about my teammates at Muangthong, I will definitely provide information about the opponent."

Along with Luong Xuan Truong, Dang Van Lam is one of two Vietnamese players currently playing in Thailand. The “War Elephants” squad for the King’s Cup 2019 includes many players from Muangthong United.

In this training session, in addition to Van Lam, Coach Park Hang-seo also called up two more goalkeepers, Nguyen Manh and Van Toan. Both have been showing good form since the beginning of the V.League season.

“This is the national team. We will try to focus on training and who will be able to play will be decided by the coaching staff,” Van Lam emphasized.

Muangthong United's goalkeeper also disagrees with the view that King's Cup is just a training tournament and does not have much meaning. He said: "For me personally, when I wear the national team jersey, any match or tournament is important. My teammates and I will try our best to play for the national team."

Vietnam Team: How did Coach Park rescue Cong Phuong?

Right before moving to Buriram to prepare for the King's Cup match against Thailand on June 5, Coach Park Hang-seo surprised many people with the "officer" positions in the Vietnam team.

Specifically, the Korean coach has decided to "appoint" Quang Hai and Van Toan as the two new vice-captains of the Vietnamese team, in addition to the "captain" who was previously appointed since the 2010 AFF Cup, Que Ngoc Hai.

Coach Park Hang-seo just made a surprising decision about the team's personnel.

This decision of Mr. Park is clearly intentional, when in reality, compared to the old vice-captains like Bui Tien Dung and Xuan Truong, Quang Hai and Van Toan are in very good form in V-League to completely take the 2 starting positions on the wing to support Anh Duc in the Vietnam team in the upcoming King's Cup.

Of course, the vice-captain or even the captain's armband is not a default starting position, but it is clear that these positions have great spiritual significance for the home team in any tournament, match, or training session...

In the morning, Cong Phuong joined the Vietnamese team for the King's Cup after flying from Korea straight to Thailand.

It can be seen that Cong Phuong will find it difficult to bring a comfortable mentality to the team after the second trip abroad did not achieve the goal as he himself admitted, despite trying his best.

Coach Park's decisions seem to be causing difficulties for Cong Phuong - the one who is not in the best shape.

Not only having mental problems, the constant sitting out at Incheon Utd also clearly makes Cong Phuong face his form. And this seems to be the biggest reason for Coach Park Hang-seo to have a bit of difficulty if he decides to let Cong Phuong start, even though he really wants to.

Sitting on the bench and coming on as a substitute at the right time is probably the most comprehensive solution for Cong Phuong as well as coach Park Hang-seo at this time, as it both resolves the psychological crisis and ensures that his physical strength is not exhausted - which can easily lead to injury for the striker from Nghe An.

4 players from Hong Linh Ha Tinh and Hue clubs cannot join U23 Vietnam; Hoang Duc must practice separately.

Except for 4 players from Hong Linh Ha Tinh and Hue clubs who cannot join U23 Vietnam, coach Kim Han Yoon also has 4 "injured soldiers" who cannot practice with the whole team.

Viettel player suffered a serious groin injury half a month ago.

The most notable case is midfielder Nguyen Hoang Duc. The Viettel player suffered a serious groin injury half a month ago. Assistant coach Nguyen Hai Bien of the army team himself also expressed his wish that Hoang Duc be completely treated for his injury before serving the club and the national team.

Khoi Nguyen