(PLO)- Just win 1-0 like how Park Hang-seo’s teachers and students did at King’s Cup, Vietnam will win the championship.
Looking at the turn to identify yourself and identify your opponent is essential to find a victory in a difficult match in Thailand.
Don’t lose the center line
Football expert Trinh Minh Hue analyzed the necessary and sufficient conditions in the second leg to be crowned champion, but first look at the highlights in the first leg: Bodybuilding, the strength of both sides is 50-50. In the home game of My Dinh, the Vietnamese team (VN) was more profitable, but the overall match showed that the Thai team played more reasonably and better.
Thailand set a goal from drawing to winning with the strategy of capturing the middle, sending the ball to split the armpits so that the two very strong defenders of Vietnam (Van Hau and Tan Tai) might not attack. Both Van Hau and Tan Tai had difficulties, being passive between attack and defense.
That way of kicking from Thailand combined with unexpected lines through the center of the ball, making three defenders Que Ngoc Hai, Tien Dung, Duy Manh both worry regarding dealing with the cross-border ball, and worry regarding being beaten, so they often clustered, causing There is a surplus of defenders but a shortage of players in the midfield.
| Beware of falling into Thailand’s traps from squabbles and controversies like these. Photo: HAI THINH |
A clear difference between Thailand and Vietnam is that the opponent moves without the ball more prominently. They always come to the point where the ball will come, and we, besides Tien Linh’s header, almost the ball is passed to the right person.
VN is stronger than Thailand in the goalkeeper position and the spearhead Tien Linh has a chance to score. So going to the away field, what you need to do is push the center back to support the midfield; Quang Hai should not go to the border a lot to make the middle line short of people, and block the way up of Van Hau or Van Thanh.
In short, it is necessary for VN not to lose the middle line like in the first leg. The central defenders need to rise higher, don’t be greedy for small coordination on the border to widen the way for Van Hau or Van Thanh to rise as two full-backs when attacking.
Coach Park Hang-seo’s teachers and students only have one way to win, so don’t think regarding a 2-2 draw and then kick two extra periods or beat the opponent in 90 minutes with a score of 3-3.
Accept being weaker to fight with the “martial arts” of the weak
Meanwhile, journalist Phan Dang analyzed by mental and psychological factors:
It is necessary to talk regarding the 2-2 draw, the match that most people say “lucky to escape”. During the match, the gap between VN’s midfield and defender was too big. Thailand hit the ball well, causing VN to be pushed into the squad and Thailand continuously mastered this gap. VN will partially close this gap if there is a midfielder who can sweep enough heat and be alert enough. The duo Hung Dung – Hoang Duc are both attacking models, not “scanning” midfielders. So why don’t we use a real sweeper midfielder, like Duc Huy in the AFF Cup 2018? The answer may lie in the mind: We think that fighting with Thai can still use a system like kicking with Indonesia, Malaysia. It is also possible that Mr. Park currently does not have any real sweeper midfielders. So in the second leg, is not Thanh Chung or Duy Manh going to sweep and strengthen the midfield as a solution to think regarding?
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| Hung Dung, Hoang Duc all have a tendency to attack while the Vietnamese midfield lacks a true sweeper midfielder to clean up in the middle of the field. Photo: HAI THINH |
Let’s assume if the opponent is not Thailand but Japan, Korea or Saudi Arabia, what will happen if we are tied 1-1 at the beginning of the second half? The answer is: It’s normal, because the opponent is superior!
But with Thailand when they do that is a different story. It seems that somewhere in our player’s mind, we still don’t acknowledge Thailand’s superiority, so when we suddenly lose a goal, we “cry nose” and from “spicy nose” to psychological collapse is a distance. Very close.
So this needs to be changed immediately in the return leg. Be honest with your mind to admit Thailand is still marginally better. So if you accidentally lose the first goal, consider it a normal thing. Don’t fall for that. This must be anticipated and determined very clearly to have any hope of reversing the situation if unfortunately losing first.
In football, it is very normal for the weaker team to win the better team. The point is to honestly admit that you are weaker in order to play the way of the “lower” team and have positive psychological reactions in the position of a “lower” person.
Just stay true to your own mind: Yes! We are weaker, but we still have the “martial arts” of the weak to defeat the strong. Finals of the AFF Cup first leg in 2008, teacher and coach Calisto won Thailand right in Thailand with the spirit and martial arts of the weak. And history will repeat itself if we are honest with our minds!
Duc Truong
