Quang Nam FC - SLNA: Choose Tuan Tai or Osmar for the center forward position?

Currently, the Brazilian striker has completely recovered from his injury and is ready to play. Having been sidelined for nearly 2 months, Osmar must be eager to join his teammates and help SLNA overcome this difficult period.

The return of Osmar has made the coaching staff of the Nghe An team extremely excited. The fact that only foreign player Olaha was on the field in the recent matches is one of the main reasons why SLNA received bad results in V.League 2018.

Without the presence of striker Osmar, the Nghe An team’s attack lacked the necessary sharpness. A series of delicious opportunities were created but were all regrettably squandered by Olaha, Van Duc…

Witnessing the lack of luck of SLNA strikers, many experts and fans of Nghe An believe that coach Nguyen Duc Thang is lacking a true killer, someone who knows how to convert even the smallest opportunities into goals. Osmar is the answer to the problem: The effectiveness of SLNA's attack.

Foreign player Osmar has fully recovered from his injury. Photo: Trung Kien

With outstanding physique, physical strength and impressive scoring ability (scoring 5 goals/7 matches for HAGL in V.League 2016), the Brazilian player is an important player for SLNA's coaching staff in the upcoming matches.

The impressive performance in the 2-2 draw of Nghe An team against Than Quang Ninh team in round 3 of V.League 2018 was enough to confirm Osmar's talent and integration with SLNA. 1 goal and 1 assist for Olaha is the basis to believe that coach Nguyen Duc Thang will use the former HAGL striker.

This is completely normal, because there is no way that Nghe An football team would spend a large amount of money just to pay the salary of a player sitting on the bench. Therefore, in normal health conditions, foreign player Osmar will be the first choice for the center forward position of SLNA.

And there would be no problem for the coaching staff of the Nghe An team, if striker Tuan Tai had not played extremely impressively recently (scoring 3 goals/2 matches). The performance of the player born in 1995 in recent matches (scoring 7 goals in all competitions) deserves an official position in the attack of the Vinh team.

Striker Tuan Tai is in good form. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Pushing Tuan Tai to the bench to make room for a foreign player who has just recovered from an injury like Osmar is a somewhat unfair action towards the player from Hung Nguyen (Nghe An). However, using both Tuan Tai and Osmar on the field together will affect the squad and the playing style that has been built quite stably.

Therefore, to achieve a favorable result against the home team Quang Nam FC in round 8 taking place on May 20, coach Nguyen Duc Thang and his colleagues must successfully solve the Tuan Tai - Osmar problem.

Who knows, maybe the coaching staff of the Nghe An team will accept the risk of pulling Olaha back to play next to Khac Ngoc in the central midfield position (replacing Ngoc Toan who is not really fit), so that Osmar can play alongside Tuan Tai in the attack. Let's wait and see which option coach Nguyen Duc Thang and his colleagues will choose.