Will U23 Vietnam easily 'overcome' Myanmar?

Before the 2015 SEA Games, when playing a friendly match at My Dinh Stadium,U23 VietnamThey used all their strength to easily defeat a team that had hidden their cards and their true strength was only unleashed in the official match shortly after. As a result, U23 Vietnam was left empty-handed and out of the tournament. Not to mention that later at the AFF Cup 2018, the Vietnamese team under Mr. Park could only draw with the Myanmar team...

Obviously, although the Vietnam National Team and Vietnam U23 have recently achieved many results in the region and continent, each time they meet Myanmar is a memorable and worth mentioning event. With this U23 generation, the possibility of encountering "trouble" with Myanmar U23 is more likely to happen when we do not understand our opponents, do not have much experience and the match against them is a key match, anything can happen to youth football?

In the past, Myanmar football had good training centers, foreign coaches and experts, their generations of players were physically fit, ready to play tough and especially they were quite experienced, sublimated every time they played with Vietnamese players. This generation of U23 Vietnam players, most of them are products of the Hanoi FC and Viettel training centers, not as technically excellent as the HAGL center, nor as tough as the SLNA center, but quite harmonious between physical strength, physique and technical tactics. Some young players of the Hanoi FC center have competed and trained abroad quite a lot, but the rest are very limited because they only compete in domestic youth tournaments, the First Division and a few in the V. League.

The most joyful thing about the U23 team is that their physique is not inferior to their regional opponents. Their physical strength has improved significantly under Mr. Park, but the suddenness in their playing style cannot be compared to the previous teams in Changzhou or the 2019 SEA Games. Not to mention, with an opponent as weak as U23 Chinese Taipei, it took more than 80 minutes with all the necessary preparations to defeat the opponent. Wouldn't it be strange if they weren't worried?

Defenders and midfielders always pass the ball wrongly, and when they are attacking and cannot defend, everyone understands what will happen, if the opponent is U23 Myanmar, for example? Therefore, players who were trusted before the qualifying round such as Quang Vinh, Xuan Quyet, and even Huu Thang will have to make more efforts and be more determined if they want to show their true abilities. With Xuan Tu trying to call and miss shots, Mr. Park will surely have a headache with the problem of attacking, when it is not difficult for the opponent to predict U23 Vietnam.

It is also quite worrying that Mr. Park's trump cards after the first hard-fought match with U23 Chinese Taipei are actually not many left? Therefore, hopefully in a confrontation situation, with nothing left to lose, all the potential of the players will have a chance to be revealed.

With the recent 1-0 victory, the "second place" chance when calculating the goal difference of U23 Vietnam will be low and not have much advantage, so only the chance of winning against U23 Myanmar will be the "brightest" to go straight to the final round. That is a difficult path, even very difficult if U23 Vietnam cannot overcome a tough opponent in the region, even if it is not Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia but Myanmar?

Vietnamese football is on the right track, not hoping for the Vietnamese national team to qualify for the 2022 World Cup but hoping for the next World Cup, 2026, when the number of participating teams will increase from 32 to 48 teams? The responsibility is placed on the shoulders of the current U23 players, so how they will perform in this Group I qualifying round, and even more so in the upcoming Finals, will be the most accurate answer?

Looking at the results of the first match, concerns are starting to show? Can it be said that Mr. Park is hiding his cards from a tough opponent? Can it be blamed on psychological factors, the field surface or some other objective difficulty?

Yesterday's success is favorable for today, but not only that, it also directly creates difficulties for oneself when the opponent is no longer surprised, no longer passive and has had time to read all the "wizard" Park's plays?

That requires Mr. Park to constantly renew himself and his team. But whether he can do it well or not, whether he has enough time and resources, no one can answer, except for the reality on the field.

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