Viettel - Young Elephants: Wait for a victory in AFC Cup.
*Viettel - Young Elephants: 17h Friday 24/6, on MetaSports
Viettel attended the AFC Cup 2022 after ranking second in the V-League 2021. They attended the AFC Champions League last year, but stopped in the group stage. This time the AFC Cup is a playground that is more affordable to Bae Ji-Won's teachers and students, when the opponents in the group stage are in Southeast Asia.
Young Elephants are at the top of the Laos championship with an unbeaten record through nine battles. Satyasagara's army should have played qualifying, but were straightened by the opponent withdrawing from the tournament. This is the first time the team has attended the continental tournament.
Young Elephants has gathered as many locks as the back of the Kaharn Phetsivilay, Kittisak Phomvongsa, Bounphachan Bounkong, Kydane Souvanny or Somkroh. They enlisted four foreign troops for AFC Cup 2022, two Japanese players, a Brazilian front and a Myanmar. Two Japanese players haven't played in J-League games, and grew up in high school football. Brazil Leader Lucas Paulista used to play in a third grade Thailand, and the Aee Soe every three times a Myanmar wore.
You can see the difference between the two teams, Viettel also owns many national players like Chen Zheng Ryu saeba, the Japanese, the German Nguy of Germany, not to mention the other players of U23 like Nguyu or Chen Zheng. Viettel's men are also considered higher, with three francs of Caique, Pedro Paulo and Geovane Magno, former recruiting Uzbekistan Jagir Abduminov.
"Viettel's young players will have the opportunity to play," said coach Bae Ji-won. "The most important thing is how we show on the field."
Bae was appointed to replace Coach Zhang Bank, who suddenly resigned recently, he wasn't a stranger to the Vietnam fan, when he was an assistant for Coach Park-seo at TQG. He's been leading the Fight Club for years in Korea at K-League.
Currently, fans are waiting for Thanh Binh or Manh Dung to show how, after contributing significantly to help Vietnam win the gold medal SEA Games 31 and in the quarterfinals of U23 Asia 2022 a month. Whether Manh Dung occupies the striker of the foreign soldiers, or he will have to kick the center -back. And Hoang Duc and Duc Chien will play to ensure the position on the team.
In the press conference before the match, both coaches said they did not know much about the opponent. "Viettel is strong but everything can happen in football," coach Satyasagara said. "We will fight to achieve the best results."
After the match against Young Elephants, Viettel met Phnom Penh Crown (Cambodia) and Hougang United (Singapore). With outstanding strength, Vietnamese representatives are expected to win all three groups in the group stage to qualify. The best achievement of a Vietnamese club in the tournament is the semi -finals, created by Binh Duong in 2009 and Hanoi in 2019.
