V-League 2023 determines the relegation team today
Coach Pham Minh Duc returned to lead Da Nang to replace coach Phan Thanh Hung at the beginning of June. He helped the Hoa Xuan team's home team unbeaten for four consecutive matches when drawing with Binh Duong 1-1 and 0-0, Hai Phong 0-0 and beat the champion candidate Hanoi Police 1-0, to take advantage of the relegation race. But then Da Nang "shot itself in the foot" with three consecutive defeats with the same score of 1-0 against Ho Chi Minh City, HAGL and SLNA. Minh Duc's teachers and students dropped to the bottom of the table with 11 points, three points behind the top two teams, Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City.
In the last round of group B, Da Nang as Khanh Hoa's guest, the team no longer had much motivation to compete when it had tickets to relegation. However, even with three points, Minh Duc's teachers and students could not decide their own fate. They will stay at the bottom of the table and be relegated, if in the match at the same time, Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong "shake hands" to divide the points. Da Nang can only stay in the V-League next season, if they win Khanh Hoa, and Binh Duong beat Ho Chi Minh City, or Ho Chi Minh City wins by a difference of 7 goals larger than their match.
The person who is leading Binh Duong is Le Huynh Duc, the one-time god of Da Nang football. He used to play for the team on the banks of the Han River, then switched to being the team's coach, sticking with it for 12 years, and won the V-League championship with Da Nang in 2009 and 2012. Coach Huynh Duc said Binh Duong would not be foolish. take the initiative to draw Ho Chi Minh City. But in the current situation, Mr. Duc's army is unlikely to play risky attacks in search of victory. They need to calculate and aim for the most reasonable results to complete the goal of relegation.
Meanwhile, on the HCM City side, coach Vu Tien Thanh did not hesitate to reveal his plan to draw to earn a point, just enough to continue to stay in the V-League next year.
Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong have the right to calculate for their own benefit. However, they also need to play transparently to avoid getting angry from fans. The story at Nam Dinh Club in the past few days is a lesson for Vietnamese football teams. Nam Dinh fans were angry, dissolved the Fan Association and announced that they did not come to the field to fire up the team after the match, which they thought that the home team did not play at its best when welcoming the Hanoi Police, letting the opponent go back. line won 2-1.
