Can U23 Vietnam develop its "unique moves"?

Exactly asInter Football writer Jung Ji-hoon expressed his surprise right after the match: “Korea is the power of the group but the strength of U23 Vietnam is unbelievable. Controlling the ball up to 75% but Mr. Kim's students always encountered strong and proactive resistance from U23 Vietnam”.

Unique move

For those who understand Vietnamese football, just scoring a goal against U23 Korea is difficult, scoring first is even more difficult. But it can be said that Coach Park Hang Seo's experience in coaching is the key to the goal.

Mr. Park had a memorable match. Photo: Internet

If the Korean U23 players were allowed to stabilize their formation, there would be almost no chance for Cong Phuong and Quang Hai. Few people would have thought that the Vietnamese U23 would attack right from the start. They abandoned short, small plays to use long plays, accepting to compete with bigger, taller opponents to increase the speed of the match.

It was not Van Thanh, the player with more attacking experience, but Van Hau, the player with speed and good physique, who was instructed by Mr. Park to exploit the opponent's flank.

Another surprise is that Quang Hai, a left-footed player, was assigned to play as a right midfielder. A player of Hanoi FC. For a long time, in training and friendly matches, Quang Hai was assigned to the left midfielder position. When playing against the opponent, Quang Hai tends to move inside and on one occasion he had a great goal into the top corner of goalkeeper Kang Hyeon-mu's goal.

It was a goal that had both Van Hau's speed, Cong Phuong's unique ball-dropping technique and Quang Hai's scoring class.

Develop?

Not only Quang Hai's goal, but throughout the 90 minutes on the field, U23 Vietnam operated very differently from the training and friendly matches. Duy Manh's mobility allowed U23 Vietnam's defense to quickly change from a 5-4-1 to a 4-1-4-1 formation.

The speed of the match, especially the time to switch from defense to counterattack, is faster because the ball does not necessarily have to go through Xuan Truong's feet.

High balls are still the weak point of U23 Vietnam. Photo: Internet

U23 Australia is our next opponent who has shown superior strength against Syria. The physique and physical strength of the Kangaroo players are even better than the Korean players. Surely U23 Vietnam will face "physical torture" from U23 Australia in the upcoming match. To score a goal, U23 Vietnam cannot deploy troops to confront directly but still needs to use unique, strange and surprising moves.

Clearly, Mr. Park has shown his class as a coach, with unique tactics shown in the first match. That raises hopes for the progress of U23 Vietnam at the 2018 AFC U23 Championship./.