V-League 2022: A dull or dramatic ending?
(Baonghean.vn) - V-League 1-2022 is gradually entering the final rounds. If in round 21, Hai Phong does not beat Hanoi FC at Lach Tray Stadium, there will be nothing left to say when the capital team's championship opportunity is extremely clear and realistic. However, Hanoi FC is still 2 points ahead of the second-placed team, Hai Phong, and has played one less match, so they are still comfortable in the sprint to the finish line.
Fortunately for V-League, Van Quyet and his teammates lost easily in the first half, then rose up to win in the second half but in the end had to "apologize to the boss" for ruining their family's happy day. The opportunity opened up for the neighboring teams, Hai Phong and Topenland Binh Dinh, teams that are both strong and have strong support from fans and the locality, besides Viettel, who are not excellent but are also very difficult to defeat at this time.
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Ho Chi Minh City Club has just suffered the heaviest defeat in V.League this season. Photo: VPF |
That's in theory, but in reality, the races at the top and bottom of the table from round 22 will be dramatic or boring, everyone knows. Unlike previous seasons, from 2022, whenV.League"promoted", there will be 3 teams participating in the continental and regional cups, so the race will be more interesting. The group of teams with medals will receive this honor to represent Vietnamese football in the official AFC Champions League group stage and 2 AFC Champions League play-off spots. Therefore, if truly "professional", even winning 3rd place at the end of the season is a success. It is worth mentioning that not all V-League teams have enough financial and human resources to go to the "big sea" which is both costly and tiring, and the achievements are far away? After what Hanoi FC, Viettel or Hoang Anh Gia Lai showed last season, hopefully Vietnamese football will have more representatives to compete well in the upcoming continental and regional cups.
The middle group of V-League has long been a place of leisure for all calculations when competing is useless, relegation is impossible. The matches of the middle group are therefore less competitive, more procedural, boring to watch but the village rules are familiar, no one finds fault and there is no reason to discipline. Hoang Anh Gia Lai or Song Lam Nghe An belong to this group, so whether they lose or draw, everything still goes with the flow, the poor are the fans who wait wearily for a time of joy and victory is also far away. The way people are excited is top 3, when they are down, "out of the top 3 so..." without any awkwardness shows that saying is one thing, but doing is... never believe?
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Van Duc shined in Song Lam Nghe An's draw with Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Chung Le |
It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the group that “bestows favors”, “stores points” for the teams that are thirsty, racing to avoid the unwanted bottom group. There are countless reasons for this group’s matches, including testing young players for next season, injuries, penalty cards, personal mistakes, defense errors, referee mistakes… They know, but people still talk and blame. Meanwhile, the people in charge of the tournament hope for everything to be finished, everything will be resolved later, but can they wait… until Tet?
This 2022 season has another "luck" in that no team is identified as a "point warehouse" for people to compete to beat up, only to be relegated before the end of the tournament. The teams that take turns finishing at the bottom such as Nam Dinh, Saigon FC or Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Linh Ha Tinh... when facing danger, they all have specific "decisive battles" such as changing generals, doping bonuses... so up to now, it is impossible to say which of these 4 teams will be the lucky one. Not only that, this season there are also potential candidates for relegation such as SHB Da Nang, even... Hoang Anh Gia Lai when it is unclear whether they will have a victory as a gift for fans in the next round or not, after 9 rounds of not winning?
Whoever is “strong” will overcome relegation, through the results of many matches on the field and quietly somewhere, even though evidence is a luxury. It is the end of the game, the end of the season, the afternoon market. Hopefully, the above unmentionable things will be wrong, gradually wrong in the vivid reality of the V-League field from the opening to the closing? How fortunate that the V-League still has teams worth watching such as Hanoi, Hai Phong, Viettel or Topenland Binh Dinh..., teams that are attractive enough to attract audiences to the field, qualified to represent a football foundation in the region and the continent, capable of overshadowing the current lack of professionalism...
