HAGL has to rely on a last-minute penalty to overcome An Giang in the National Cup photo: Huu Pham HAGL “howling” On the Pleiku field, forecasts were all about an easy victory for HAGL in the match against An Giang. Coach Kiatisuk Senamuang’s team is leading the LS V-League 2021 with 25 points after 10 matches. They have a series of 9 unbeaten matches, including up to 6 consecutive victories. In contrast, An Giang is at the bottom of the First Division table. In front of an underrated opponent, coach Kiatisuk Senamuang took off the main team of HAGL except for the position of midfielder Huu Tuan. In addition to the 3 foreign soldiers such as Brandao, Kim Dong Su and Memovic that are not used according to the National Cup regulations, the players with the highest performance of HAGL such as Cong Phuong, Van Toan, Luong Xuan Truong … all attended. be. With home advantage, HAGL soon overwhelmed An Giang right from the start. However, the HAGL attack line proved to be quite deadlocked before the large defensive play of An Giang. In the first half, HAGL only created a really dangerous situation in the 16th minute when Bao Toan finished the ball and hit the visitors’ post after the assist of Chau Ngoc Quang. The rest of the time, the HAGL strikers, despite the efforts, could not reach the visitors’ goal. At the beginning of the second half, coach Kiatisuk launched Tuan Anh on the pitch to replace Dong Trieu to increase creativity for the midfield. HAGL’s ball lanes were sharper, but the real opportunity still didn’t come. Suddenly happened in the 72nd minute when Van Hop finished tossing the roof of the home team’s net. Before that, An Giang had a quick counterattack on the right wing before the ball was thrown inside. The early defeat made coach Kiatisuk and BHL home team startled. Six minutes later, coach Kiatisuk sent four players Van Toan, Minh Vuong, Nguyen Trung Dai Duong and Van Thanh into the field to increase their attack power. HAGL pushes up the squad to put pressure on the opponent. In the 85th minute, Van Toan was fouled in the penalty area and brought a penalty of 11 meters to HAGL. On the penalty spot, Van Thanh defeated goalkeeper Thanh Nha, bringing a 1-1 equalizer for HAGL. HAGL’s 2-1 victory was set in the 90 + 1 minute with a goal from Nguyen Trung Dai Duong. The struggling victory against An Giang will probably help coach Kiatisuk to have more “data” to prepare for the HAGL in the front stage. Enemy forces, exhaustion Also in the afternoon, the first round of the National Cup had 4 other matches, including: Pho Hien-Song Lam Nghe An, SHB Da Nang-Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Hong Linh Ha Tinh-CAND and Can Tho-Becamex Binh Duong. Due to having to put effort into the V-League front, which is fierce, the V-League representatives all keep the pillars on the bench. In addition, since the First Division teams do not use foreign soldiers, the V-League teams must also let foreign soldiers outside. This has significantly reduced the strength of the V-League teams. At Hoa Xuan Stadium, SHB Da Nang only won 1-0 against Ba Ria-Vung Tau. Song Lam Nghe An even disappointed when he lost 0-1 to Pho Hien. Similarly, Becamex Binh Duong was held 1-1 by Can Tho, and then lost 2-4 in the penalty shootout. Hong Linh Ha Tinh is the only representative of the V-League to win convincingly, with a score of 4-2 against CAND. The central team, after breaking up with coach Pham Minh Duc, is playing excitedly under the guidance of coach Nguyen Thanh Cong. Today, the first round of the National Cup will continue with 4 other matches between Dak Lak-Dong A Thanh Hoa, Binh Dinh-Long An, Quang Nam-Saigon and Hai Phong-Binh Phuoc. The opening ceremony will take place at Quy Nhon Stadium in the match between host Binh Dinh and Long An. According to the announcement from the Organizer, this match will hold a lucky draw for fans with a reward of 1 Bamboo Airways domestic ticket worth 5 million VND. The best player in the match will receive 2 domestic flight tickets with 1 Bamboo Airways First Class card worth VND 85 million. Sponsorship news

In addition to the number of starting players, clubs must have an extra force to prepare for situations that arise and injuries. In the V.League, teams usually have 25 to 30 players. HAGL also registered 26 players for this season. To win the V.League championship, coaches often have to maximize the capabilities of both the main squad and the reserve team. HAGL almost maintained an immutable roster after 10 rounds. Photo: Minh Chien. Official and reserve spreads After 10 rounds of V.League, no club has the difference in time between the main roster and the reserve team as much as HAGL. 6 HAGL players who have played all 10 games this season are Nguyen Van Toan, Nguyen Cong Phuong, Washington Brandao, Vu Van Thanh, Nguyen Huu Tuan and Huynh Tuan Linh. The other 5 people with 9 matches are Kim Dong-su, Damir Memovic, Nguyen Phong Hong Duy, Luong Xuan Truong and Tran Minh Vuong. They form a group of 11 main soccer players of coach Kiatisuk. All 11 people have more than 800 minutes in the V.League. Minh Vuong, who is the least player in this group, also has 750 minutes. In the opposite direction, 16 other HAGL players only played a total of 824 minutes, slightly better than Minh Vuong. The huge difference in the number of minutes played between the main and the reserve players led to the difference in contributions to the club. The first 11 people scored 19 goals for HAGL in the V.League. The remaining 16 people did not have one. Kiatisuk is doing very well with the main rock team. But the capacity of the reserve group has not been nearly verified. Or rather, they were not given a chance to show their abilities. We have too little data on Trieu Viet Hung, Nguyen Van Viet, Chau Ngoc Quang … under Kiatisuk. I don’t know how they will perform, what role they will play even though they are both national players, their qualifications are acknowledged. The 600-minute gap between the main team and the reserve team deepens the qualification gap between the two sides. Kiatisuk is not making full use of his abilities, while limiting the reserve group’s progress. More importantly, this will make it difficult for HAGL in the long distance race. In the V.League, HAGL is the only team that has this way of using this user. The second team Viettel also has players who play 900 minutes like Tran Nguyen Manh, Hoang Duc, but they also have players who kick 500, 600 minutes like Pedro Paulo or Jahongir Abdumuminov. The ability to use coach Truong Viet Hoang allows backup names like Vu Minh Tuan, Nguyen Trong Dai to find their own place. The proof is that Minh Tuan has scored and Trong Dai often shines when he is given the opportunity. If users like HAGL, Hanoi club in the 2019 season can hardly fight on 4 fronts. And players like Truong Van Thai Quy, Dinh Tien Thanh or Ngan Van Dai will forever stand in the dark. Kiatisuk needs to prepare for a situation in which Cong Phuong cannot play. Photo: Minh Chien. What team formation does HAGL play with An Giang? But this is just one shortcoming of HAGL. The top of the V.League table proves that Kiatisuk is still correct. He did a great job with the main squad and needed to achieve the same thing with the reserve team. The match against An Giang in the National Cup qualifier on the afternoon of April 23 was an opportunity for him. In the past, the big V.League did not take this tournament seriously. Almost certainly, Binh Duong, Da Nang, Thanh Hoa will launch the reserve squad. If you cannot do the same thing, defeating An Giang cannot be the complete victory for HAGL. Every team wants to beat HAGL now, not only An Giang. Coach Trinh Van Hau (An Giang) From the day V.League returned on March 14 to the match against An Giang, HAGL will play 9 matches in 41 days, averaging 4.5 days / match. They will play 3 more matches with the same intensity. In addition to the continuous travel schedule between the North and South ends and a tense gathering of Vietnam, how many of HAGL’s crystal feet will remain? To avoid that scenario, Kiatisuk will have to think of the reserve team. But how will those players who rarely play? Quang Nho, Bao Toan, Ngoc Quang only have a total of 57 minutes this season. How will they play if they get on the pitch for 90 minutes? Remember, apart from 11 main positions, no other player has scored for HAGL. No team can win the V.League with just 11 people, including HAGL. The confrontation with An Giang this afternoon will partly show Kiatisuk’s solution, which will greatly affect the fate of HAGL on the championship race. Kiatisuk: ‘Xuan Truong is the key player of HAGL’ Captain HAGL explained the reason why Xuan Truong cried after the match with the Hanoi team and praised the pupil.

As Xuan Truong said, the Hanoi club is still a big team, still a rival that HAGL respects. For nearly 5 years, a group of talents were praised, admired, considered “national players” of HAGL just quietly in front of Hanoi no matter which yard. In the position of Xuan Truong and his teammates, if we meet the scene, we will be pushed by Hanoi and kicked, but it would be too much. Xuan Truong shines to help HAGL beat Hanoi club. Photo: Duy Anh. HAGL deserves to win the Hanoi club Even the joke of a HAGL player that “spending the youth to stay relegated” is enough to make us see that HAGL players in particular and mountain team fans in general have been hurt like how. They had to live through both doubts about their abilities from those who did not “like” them to the “love” tinged sympathy of those who had feelings for them. Really, the German elected kids don’t want that. HAGL players know them better than that. And when Kiatisuk came back, HAGL was different. Of course, the breath changing from Kiatisuk for Cong Phuong, Xuan Truong … is only a part. The rest for HAGL to have the form today must be the courage of the German elected and the club managers. They have dared to realize their mistakes over the years because they were too confident to make a change in team personnel. Admittedly, HAGL’s foreign soldiers are very qualified and themselves are also one of the basic factors for HAGL to have their first victory over Hanoi after nearly 5 years of waiting. HAGL’s playstyle has been shaped after 10 games, and we can see very clearly Kiatissuk’s policy of having the team go from home based on a short and smooth pass and maintaining a stable squad distance close range. That makes it always easier for HAGL to get on the ball with multiple deployment directions and gives viewers the feeling that they are always enough, if not redundant, personnel in hot spots on the field. It is HAGL’s maintenance of a good formation, creating very close links, that completely divided Hanoi. The midfield of the Hanoi club, with Moses and Tan Tai, shows only enthusiasm, dynamism, not the ability to hold the rhythm of the game and coordinate the ball. And in a day when Quang Hai could not create a turning point to change the situation, Hanoi had no clear chance when the players of coach Hoang Van Phuc were just fragments that could not communicate with each other. Meanwhile, HAGL’s policy of low play and quick counter-attack proved effective. This match, HAGL played with a much lower lineup, using their numerical advantage to organize their defense tighter than in all their previous matches this season. This is the most important and accurate decision. For Kiatisuk, Hanoi club, despite a staff crisis, it is still a high quality and old competitor. Therefore, HAGL needs to be careful first and seek victory by carefully taking the opportunities that arise. When HAGL advocates that, Hanoi does not have a focused, scientific and sober defense. The losing phase may come from the surprise due to Xuan Truong’s spectacular shot, but in fact, in that situation, the two central midfielders of Hanoi left a space too wide at about 30 meters in front of them. Fort. That’s taboos. If Xuan Truong does not finish in that situation, he still has other organizational plans that are enough to endanger the goal of Tan Truong. However, the most concrete example of the lack of strictness of the Hanoi club’s defense must be the situation in the 51st minute, when HAGL counterattacked with only Van Toan and Van Thanh. Van Toan’s pass to Van Thanh is extremely dangerous. Thanh Chung contacted Tan Truong for Tan Truong to release, but obviously, it was a mistake for Thành Chung to stop at that moment. Even if the goalkeeper hears the request to leave, the defender is not allowed to stop clinging so that the opponent can have the ball. Van Thanh received the ball in that counterattack and indeed, it must be said that the Hanoi club was lucky without losing another goal. HAGL played a very good game. Not only did it show that they were much more alert, but it was also a sign they could usher in a new cycle, a cycle of challenge and success. And when HAGL gets such a positive signal, Hanoi should also wake up because if they don’t change, they will most likely enter a cycle (albeit short) of disappointment. Geovanne is an unsuitable foreign soldier for the Hanoi club, at least until now. Photo: Duy Anh. Hanoi club disappoints We have to admit that Hanoi’s foreign soldiers have not proven much and it seems that their selection of foreign soldiers is too subjective. Bruno or not? Great. Geovanne or not? Or so. However, both players are very good at kicking the right partner and rather kicking in a Viettel and Saigon club that once advocated a counterattack. Hanoi doesn’t play that counterattack football. So is it correct that they marry Bruno and Geovanne? Meanwhile, the old Hanoi club veterans used to “make salad” their opponents in the V.League really old. And when the Hanoi club fell into an injury crisis, penalty cards with formidable names like Hung Dung, Van Hau, Dinh Trong …, they appeared as an old tiger with hope for 2 The lost West striker and a lone Quang Hai do not have the most needed support. This failure can cause the Hanoi club to fall into the group of 8 teams in the second stage and if so, it is an unacceptable season for anyone who loves the purple shirt team. But it was a necessary failure, because it touched the pride of the Hanoi club, a force. It will awaken the old tiger because as a ruler, no one wants to change roles to be ruled. And all hope the Hanoi club must be revived. Because only that makes the V.League more and more attractive when HAGL has begun to really transform in the stature of a champion candidate. HAGL Highlights – Hanoi Club The only goal of Luong Xuan Truong helped the home team Hoang Anh Gia Lai to win all 3 points when receiving the Hanoi club in the 10th round of the tournament on April 18.