Coach Park: 'Argentina still lost the opening match'
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"My players are ready to attend the AFF Cup 2022. But the first match is never easy. Even Argentina has difficulty, losing 1-2 to Saudi Arabia in the first match on the journey to winning the World Cup 2022. But my task is to support the players to have the best fighting spirit, "said the Vietnam coach at a press conference in Vientiane on the morning of December 20.
According to Coach Park, the team's preparation is nothing out of the ordinary, because during the past 5 years under him, the team's playstyle and force have been shaped, with no big changes. However, the fact that Phan Van Duc and Bui Tien Dung contracted Covid-19 made the team more cautious in the medical stage.
However, this 65-year-old military leader did not hide his joy when Phan Van Duc was able to test negative for Covid-19 to fly to Laos to reunite with the whole team two days before the home match. "This is good news. Van Duc has a good attacking ability and has proven it over the years. The team needs a player like that. And I also hope Van Duc will have a good tournament this time. ", he said.
Bui Tien Dung has not recovered from Covid-19 yet, still staying in Hanoi, but Coach Park insists that Viettel's center-back will still be on the list of 23 official players for the 2022 AFF Cup. "We are still monitoring closely. Strictly, daily quick test and PCR every three days for Dung.This morning, his two test samples were made by two different units.Hopefully, when the team returns to Hanoi, Dung can join the training. with the whole team," he revealed.
He then appreciated the fighting spirit of Laos, and revealed that he had carefully studied the people and play of tomorrow's opponent. The Korean coach said: "Laos has just appointed a German coach, played 4 matches, two in September and two in December. I have only watched their last two matches, through analysis and collected information. Most of these players from Laos are in the U23 age group, preparing for next year's SEA Games. I find this team to be very strong mentally, and their coach seems to want Laos to improve ball control." .
The AFF Cup 2022 is the last tournament Coach Park Hang-seo leads the Vietnam team because he decided not to renew his contract. The Korean leader wants to reclaim the championship from Thailand, to get the best ending for the 5-year journey with Vietnamese football.
Vietnam start AFF Cup 2022 by the LL22 guest at 19h30 day at 21/12. The Mud activation of Covid-19-19, does not move with team to Vientiane. But for the rest of the forces, Mr. Park's army is still much appreciated than his opponent. Since the first time the South Asian championship was held for the first time- five 1996, Vietnam had never failed. Even the last time the team let this guy breach at Tiger Cup 1998, when he won 4-1, that five-1 person was Keolakhon Channiphone. Specifically, only a year ago, it was five 1973's toilet money that scored from a 30m, creating a surprise victory 1-0 before Malaysia, helping Vietnam slip through the window to the SEA games.
Laos has improved a lot in the past few years, but they can only narrow the gap in the scores of the defeats against Vietnam from empty-handed matches with the score 0-9 in 2007, down to 0-4 in 2012. To In 2021, Laos made Mr. Park's teachers and students struggle to win 2-0. Laos' style of play currently relies heavily on striker Billy Ketkeophomphone. This player was born in France, used to play for many clubs here such as Strasbourg, Angers, Auxerre... He was called up to the Laos team in 2021 to play the AFF Cup 2020 (postponed for a year due to Covid-19), and came out. eyes in the 0-2 loss to Vietnam.
Billy has good technical expertise, but this year is 32 years old, no longer prolific. The "satellites" around him did not have the appropriate expertise to make the ball, causing Billy to often have to go deep.
Vietnam will play away from home tomorrow. But in terms of the number of fans, the team is like playing at home, because the organizers said that the tickets for the match are mostly bought by Vietnamese fans.
