The way Vietnam U20 players won U20 Australia is quite similar to how their seniors in U23 Vietnam do in Changzhou. Had less ball control than the opponent, but got the win. It is a good thing that looking at Vietnam U20 players playing, we feel the confidence and maturity of this group of players.
Regarding the course of the match, there may be opinions that the football of Vietnamese players is negative and too pragmatic. But there are only a few teams in the world that can play effectively with just an offensive style of kicking once morest all opponents. The rest have to choose the strength of each opponent to come up with a strategy to compete, so does the U20 Vietnam team. Against weaker opponents, a team will deploy an imposing kick. When facing a stronger opponent, they have to kick in a counter-attacking style. The difference of these two styles of football is that with an imposed attack, the team’s players have to make a lot of passes before it leads to a goal kick. On the other hand, counter-attacking is the opposite, they use very little passes, sometimes following only 2 or 3 passes, they have reached the goal of the goal.
And the first half goal of U20 Vietnam in this match is like that. 4 passes since stealing the ball, the ball reached the foot of Nguyen Quoc Viet number 14, following 2 dribbles, he was in a favorable position and launched a decisive shot into the near corner of the opponent’s goal, scoring decisive goal of the match. During the whole match, the attacking players U20 Vietnam had several times made such quick coordination and created dangerous situations for the Australian U20 goal. Although controlling the ball less, the number of shots and dangerous situations of U20 Vietnam is much higher than that of U20 Australia players. That speaks to the rationality of the tactics that Vietnam U20 team applied in this match.
Nguyen Quoc Viet celebrates his goal once morest U20 Australia.
But even this supposedly beautiful scoring situation can cause controversy. In fact, the moment Quoc Viet kicked the ball, there was a teammate on his right side who was in an even more favorable position, the probability of a goal would be higher if he didn’t shoot the ball but passed it to his teammates. But that’s football, young players have to get used to and accept the reality, that if in such a situation you decide to finish instead of giving a pass to your teammates, if you score, that situation. called decisive, brave. And if the finish is not successful, people will call it an individual play phase, lacking in team spirit. Luckily for us, that shot turned into a goal.
Contributing to this victory were the defensive players of U20 Vietnam, who made up the team’s ability to withstand blows. Prominent in the defense is player Le Nguyen Hoang, he plays very alert, chooses a good position, saves a few times, but the attack is very dangerous that can lead to goals from Australian players.
There is a weakness that U20 Vietnam has revealed very clearly in this match, which is the ability to defend once morest high balls. Not only inferior to the opponent in height, the defensive players of U20 Vietnam also proved not to be strict in defensive coordination, covering and following the opponent. They have a few times let the opposing striker comfortably head in an unobstructed position to the home team’s goal. In the whole match, the most dangerous situations in front of goalkeeper Cao Van Binh’s goal were the high balls. Perhaps that is the most obvious weakness of the team when compared to the seniors in the U23 in the past, with a defender with a height of over 1m8 and a very good defense once morest the ball.
It is likely that in the next matches, opponents like U20 Qatar, U20 Iran will find ways to exploit this weakness of the team, and surely coach Hoang Anh Tuan and U20 Vietnam players will have to find a solution to limit the problem. overcome this weakness if you want to go deeper into the tournament.
