Hanoi FC drags the V-League championship race to the final round
Today's victory helps Hanoi FC continue to chase Hanoi Police - the team won Viettel 3-0 in the match at the same time. Hanoi FC currently has 35 points, ranked second, with two points less than Hanoi Police. Meanwhile, Viettel, with 32 points, and Thanh Hoa, with 30 points, ran out of chances to compete for the throne.
According to this situation, the race for the V-League championship will end in the last round on August 27, when Hanoi FC will play a derby with Viettel at My Dinh Stadium, and Hanoi Police will receive Thanh Hoa on Hang Day Stadium. But hope for Hanoi FC is not much. With two more points, Hanoi Police will take the throne if they win Thanh Hoa. In the event that they are held to a draw at Hang Day, the Hanoi Police will still be crowned, if Hanoi FC cannot defeat Viettel with a difference of over six goals.
Despite being at a disadvantage on the track, Hanoi FC still entered the match with the highest determination on Thanh Hoa Stadium this afternoon, with the spirit of still slapping water. The defending champion played dominating and led 3-0 after only 53 minutes of play, before letting the home team regain a goal.
The brightest star in this victory of Hanoi FC is Herlison Caion - foreign soldier scored all three goals. The most beautiful of them all is the phase to increase the score to 2-0 in the sixth minute of the first half. Van Quyet took a direct free kick, hanging the ball into the penalty area for Tuan Hai to make a wall to hit the connector. Herlison Caion hit the ball beautifully, making goalkeeper Thanh Diep stand still looking at the ball into the net.
Caion's two remaining goals came according to the same scenario as excellent air-fights after Van Quyet took the assist corner. In the 31st minute, the Brazilian striker headed near the wall bravely from the kick in the left corner. In the 53rd minute, Caion chose the correct position to head the ball into the far corner from the kick in the right corner.
This hat-trick helps Caion have eight goals in the V-League 2023 for Hanoi FC, equal to Van Quyet.
Previously, Caion scored a hat-trick in the match Hanoi FC beat Binh Dinh 4-2 in the first round of phase II. He became the first player to score two hat-tricks in the V-League 2023. The award recognized three other players to score a hat-trick: Tsoumou Fred and Jhon Cley of the Hanoi Police (CAHN), Rafaelson of Binh Dinh.
Thanh Hoa scored an honorable goal thanks to Bruno Cunha with a solo phase in the 68th minute. In the 79th minute, Le Quoc Phuong hit the Hanoi FC vertical column, the last remarkable attack.
In the extra minute, the match was interrupted when Doan Ngoc Tan collided strongly with Le Van Xuan of Hanoi FC, leading to an injury in the first round. Van Xuan had to bandage his head, while Ngoc Tan took more than three minutes to regain consciousness before the stretcher team took to the field.
