Declining form, Xuan Truong and Cong Phuong still have coach Park's trust?
The two most promising talents of Vietnamese football in recent years, Cong Phuong and Xuan Truong, are not in good form when playing abroad. Will coach Park Hang-seo still put his trust in these two players in the upcoming important tournaments?
Coming soon, footballVietnam is preparing to enter two extremely important tournaments: SEA Games 30 and the 2019 World Cup qualifiers. However, at the present time, the national team players are showing signs of extremely serious decline in performance, affecting our important goals.
Among them, the players who are expected a lot in the upcoming tournaments, Xuan Truong and Cong Phuong, are not in the best form. They often have to sit on the bench at their new clubs. In terms of technical factors, both of these players are currently in the most lackluster and disappointing form in the national team.
In K.League, while playing for Incheon United, Cong Phuong, despite being given many opportunities to play, seems to be having real difficulty adapting to a football environment that is more physical, high-ball and long-ball. Up to now, the striker from Do Luong has not scored any goals for his new team. He has gradually disappeared from Incheon's squad in recent rounds.
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With poor form and having to constantly sit on the bench, will Coach Park Hang-seo still have the trust of Cong Phuong and Xuan Truong? |
In Buriram United, Xuan Truong is even more miserable when after 10 matches, this player has had to sit and watch his teammates play from the bench. Except for a few classy passes for his teammates to score, he has hardly made any mark in the playing style of this Thai club.
If comparing the current form, Cong Phuong is still far behind his two teammates in the national team, Duc Chinh and Van Toan, when both have scored their own goals in the V.League. Duc Chinh, although criticized a lot in the past, has scored a goal in the SHB Da Nang shirt and Van Toan has scored 4 goals for HAGL.
Of course, we cannot compare V.League with K.League because the level of the two tournaments is completely different, but that also shows that the form of the striker wearing the number 23 shirt is not good.
In the case of Luong Xuan Truong, he cannot be compared with his colleagues in the national team in many aspects. The defensive ability of this player is still stagnant when he cannot keep up with the opponent because of his poor physical strength and pressing ability. Thus, Xuan Truong will find it very difficult to compete with Duc Huy, Hung Dung or Huy Hung. In terms of attacking, although he still occasionally has classy passes, in general, he is no longer as good as before. The reason for losing the feeling of the ball is because he does not play regularly.
Therefore, when the two major tournaments of the year of Vietnamese football are about to start, fans have every right to worry about the future of two bright stars playing abroad, Cong Phuong and Xuan Truong. It is right to worry because with the current form of these two players, will coach Park Hang-seo still have enough patience and trust in them to call them up to the national team in the near future?
Hopefully, in the coming time, Xuan Truong and Cong Phuong will try their best to regain their form and the feeling for the ball that they have lost.
Besides, the Korean strategist knows how to inspire the players' confidence. We have every right to believe that Coach Park Hang-seo will help Xuan Truong and Cong Phuong find themselves again like what he did with Duc Chinh.