Young SLNA star contributes to U23 Vietnam's big win

Dinh Xuan Tien's celebration when he scored a beautiful goal against U23 Singapore. Photo: Contributor

PrizeU23 SoutheastThe Asian Cup held in Cambodia is considered a “miniature AFF Cup” tournament that helps young players have the opportunity to compete. This tournament also helps Vietnam find potential players to prepare for the upcoming AFF Cup.Seagame32. Bringing to this tournament, coach Dinh The Nam mainly selected players of the U21 age group. Before the match with Singapore, U23 Vietnam was missing 4 players due to Covid-19. However, according to the assessment, this did not affect the quality of the squad of the team named the Golden Star Warriors too much. Because coach Dinh The Nam still has key players such as Quang Nho, Van Tung, Xuan Quyet. Especially Quang Nho is considered the leader of the U23 Vietnam attack. He is the player with the most battle experience in this year's U23 group. Quang Nho promises to be the leader of our team's attacks. Also in this tournament, SLNA contributed 5 players, including Dinh Xuan Tien, Le Thanh Lam, Tran Manh Quynh, Ho Van Cuong, Phan Ba ​​Quyen. However, only Dinh Xuan Tien was on the field in the official lineup in the opening match of U23 Vietnam.

Participating in this tournament, coach Dinh The Nam's students are in group C including U23 Vietnam, U23 Singapore, U23 Thailand. Because there are only 3 teams in a group, U23 Vietnam had a break in the first match. U23 Singapore lost 1-3 to U23 Thailand. According to the rules, each group only selects one top team and the remaining second team with the best record to enter the semi-finals. Therefore, U23 Vietnam wants to continue must have a good result against U23 Singapore.

And as predicted, U23 Vietnam only took 3 minutes after the opening whistle to make a difference. Quang Nho was the one who created the goal for Van Tung to open the score for Mr. Dinh The Nam's team. The captain of U23 Vietnam had a strong dribble from the middle of the field, then he made an accurate pass inside for Van Tung to easily head the ball past goalkeeper Fikri.

In this goal, we can see that Vietnam's ability to switch from defense to attack is quite fast and smooth. Quang Nho showed that he is calm and cunning enough when he did not shoot the ball himself but passed it to his teammates to make it easier to score.

After opening the score early, Mr. Dinh The Nam's students continued to organize attacks on Singapore's field. With fairly even techniques, the Vietnamese players had better ball control time. The white team actively coordinated small passes to disrupt the opponent's defense. Most of the Vietnamese attacks had a very important role for Quang Nho. This player had the ability to hold the ball quite well, which was why he made the Singapore defense confused many times.

However, with their superior height, Vietnam's opponent still had many dangerous threats to Eli Nie's goal. Singapore's clearest chance came in the 12th minute of the match. Striker Ilhan Fandi seized the opportunity to head the ball into an empty net, but defender Nguyen Van Son was able to block it in time.

After a number of opportunities created by Singapore, Vietnam immediately regained control of the game and created many clear scoring situations. SLNA's player isDinh Xuan Tienscored to raise the score to 2-0 for U23 Vietnam. The striker born in 2003 handled the ball very skillfully and confidently before calmly finishing with a beautiful outside foot, sending the ball into the far corner of the goal, defeating goalkeeper Fikri. This goal was evaluated by experts as a beautiful goal, converging many elements of a talented player in the future.

Not stopping at 2-0, Van Tung continued to tap the ball into the net to raise the score to 3-0 for Vietnam in the 37th minute of the match. In the final minutes of the first half, the initiative still belonged to the team of coach Dinh The Nam, but no more goals were scored.

Quang Nho and his teammates had a successful match against the weakest opponent in the group. Photo: Internet

In the second half, Singapore tried harder to launch attacks. And the other team had a few dangerous shots, but they only stopped at opportunities and could not make a change on the scoreboard.

It seemed that after leading 3-0, VN took the initiative to play defensive counter-attack. Our team's transitions were quite sharp, many times putting the opponent's defense on alert. Dinh Xuan Tien showed his strangeness again, when he had a chip from outside the penalty area that defeated goalkeeper Fikri, but unfortunately the ball hit the crossbar. But VN did not have to regret too much, because later in the 56th minute of the match, Quang Nho raised the score to 4-0. The goal was greatly credited to Dinh Xuan Tien, when he had a reasonable assist for the VN captain to easily score at a fairly close range to the opponent's goal.

In the remaining minutes of the match, Vietnam played with one more player, so coach Dinh The Nam's players continuously attacked the opponent's goal. Many attacking options were created by the white team. And the yellow star team scored 3 more goals to have a devastating 7-0 victory.

With this victory, U23 Vietnam ranked first in Group C. On February 22, coach Dinh The Nam's students will meet U23 Thailand and our team only needs a draw to put themselves in the semi-finals.

Vietnam: Eli Nie - Duy Cuong, Van Thang, Van Son, Quang Thinh, Thanh Khoi, Quang Nho, Xuan Tien, Van Tung, Xuan Quyet, Van Huu.

Singapore: Fikri - Emaviwe, Ryaan, Shahiran, Fandi, Akbar, Qayyum, Gallagher, Stewart, Kweh, Akmal.