Test for Huu Thang's army?

(Baonghean.vn) -Since football is not a popular sport in Taiwan, there is no professional league in the country. Most of their team members play in China, while others are students from Taipei University or Taiwan Sports University, and some players work and play amateur football. But that certainly won’t make it easy for the Vietnamese team to win!

To prepare for the match with the Vietnamese team, coach Chen Kuei-jen of Taiwan (China) has called up 26 players, most notably Chen Tshan-Yuan, who has dual Taiwanese and Belgian nationality, currently playing for Mechelen Club (Belgium) and captain midfielder Chen Po-liang, who is playing for Hangzhou Greentown of the Super League (China). In addition, there are Chen Hao-wein, Wu Chun-ching, Wen Chih-hao, Yaki Yen... who are playing football in China.

Vietnam team under Huu Thang.

In Group F, Vietnam currently has 4 points after 4 matches, second to last, above Taiwan (5 matches, 0 points). It is likely that coach Nguyen Huu Thang's team will be above their opponents after the group stage ends and qualify for the next qualifying round to compete for a ticket to the 2019 Asian Cup. However, the meeting on the evening of March 24 will be worth watching because this is the first official international match of coach Huu Thang after replacing Toshiya Miura.

Taiwanese football and their team have never been rated higher than Vietnam, that is an objective truth. According to the latest FIFA rankings, we are ranked 146th, while our opponents are ranked 181st. But in the first leg away match, it was thanks to Phi Son's goal in the 90+2 minute that Coach Miura's team won all 3 points. This was also a match in which our Vietnamese players had to brace themselves against the fast, strong attacks of the Taiwanese team and in fact, the opponent's long ball style made the red team's defense extremely difficult to defend.

Using his weakness to fight his strength, Coach Miura himself paid a heavy price by losing his head coach position. Before coming to Vietnam, the Taiwanese team won Guam 3-2 in a friendly match and in Hanoi, Coach Chen Kuei-jen of Taiwan confidently declared: "I don't care who the new head coach of Vietnam is, we came here to win."

Analyzing the video of the match against Guam, we see that Taiwan's style of play is extremely simple, fiercely competing for the ball, mainly just playing long balls over the line, but if the physical foundation is not guaranteed in the last 15 minutes, the Vietnamese players will encounter many difficulties. The tall, young physique allows the Taiwanese players to play close, fiercely fighting all over the field for 90 minutes.

Immediately after taking the national coach's seat, the Nghe An coach announced that he would apply the Tiki-taka style of play that has been successful in leading European and world teams such as Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, or the Spanish national team. In fact, with the framework of two HAGL players Tuan Anh and Xuan Truong, along with sweeper Hoang Thinh in the midfield, the team has operated quite smoothly. In two friendly matches, the Vietnamese team launched an average of about 600 passes, of which 90% were short, low balls with a relatively high success rate. Although the finishing ability is not high, it has gradually improved.

However, with the blue army of HN.T&T and Than Quang Ninh not competing fiercely for the ball, the match speed is low, the above numbers do not say anything. Only when facing the team of players mostly born in the 90s from Taiwan can we know the strength of our team?

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