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Revealing the Vietnam U20 with two consecutive wins: the meritorious manager recreates the golden generation, and the national football team should learn two points

After a last-minute header to beat Qatar U20, Vietnam U20 won two consecutive U20 Asian Cups, just one step away from promotion. Vietnam's consecutive U20 victories over Australia and Qatar are in stark contrast to the U20 national football team being reversed by Japan.

The meritorious manager transforms the team in five months

In the U20 Asian Cup qualifiers, Dinh Shinan's Vietnam Under-20 performed poorly, losing 2-3 to Indonesia and finishing second in the group stage. Just five months later, Hoang Ying Jun gave Vietnam U20 a "makeover" performance.

In fact, compared with the qualifiers, the Vietnamese U20 lineup has hardly changed, but Hoang Ying Jun's tactical arrangement and personnel use are completely different from Dinh Shi Nam. First, he changed the formation from 4231 to 433, while using defensive counterattack tactics. Secondly, he emphasized the use of set-pieces.

It was these two changes that helped Vietnam U20 win over Qatar U20. Vietnam's first goal of the game came from a quick counter-attack after a broken ball in midfield, and Nguyen Quoc Viet broke into the box and calmly broke away from the defender's low shot. Against Australia, Nguyen Quoc Viet also used a counterattack to break through to the arc of the penalty area and then shot from a long distance.

Revealing the Vietnam U20 with two consecutive wins: the meritorious manager recreates the golden generation, and the national football team should learn two points
Revealing the Vietnam U20 with two consecutive wins: the meritorious manager recreates the golden generation, and the national football team should learn two points

After equalising with a penalty in the 84th minute, Nguyen Van Trong scored the winner after a stoppage-time header. Against Australia, Vietnam Under-20s scored with headers in almost the same way.

Revealing the Vietnam U20 with two consecutive wins: the meritorious manager recreates the golden generation, and the national football team should learn two points

Considering the height of the Vietnamese players, Hoang Anh Jun developed a special set-piece tactic, requiring more to drive the ball to the front point, and use flexible movement to find opportunities for header shots or ferries. Vietnamese media pointed out that "set-pieces are always a powerful weapon for teams that adopt defensive counter-attack tactics. ”

Against Australia, Huang Yingjun switched to a three-centre-back system, and the 541 formation contained his opponent's attack and surprised his opponent. Australian boss Morgan admitted after the game: "I was a bit surprised by their formation, they used to play 433 or 451, but this time they used to use a back five. ”

At the same time, in order to make up for the lack of left-back positions, Huang Yingjun let the back Qu Wenkang play as a defender, and he also provided a key assist against Australia. Another adjustment for Hoang Anh Joon is to have another defender, Nguyen Van Trong, play as a center forward to play to his countervailing advantage. The data shows that Nguyen Van Chang's success rate against the opponent is as high as 80%, and he has been violated by his opponent four times, ranking first in the team.

Physical fitness from a short board to an advantage

Facing his stronger opponents, Huang Yingjun first emphasized defense. Against Qatar, Vietnam U20 has only 30.8% of the ball, but only 3 of the opponent's 11 shots on target, twice as much as Vietnam's U20.

Against Australia, Vietnam's U20 possession rate is only 34%, and the opponent has 22 crosses, double that of Vietnam. However, Vietnam not only withstood the onslaught of its opponents, but also constantly created threats with counterattacks, with 8 shots on goal that were twice as high as their opponents.

Although height is not dominant, speed and agility are characteristic of Vietnamese players, and they also use this advantage in both the offensive and defensive phases. In two matches, Vietnam Under-20s conceded only one controversial penalty.

One of the biggest improvements for the Vietnam Under-20s was his fitness, with Vietnamese players struggling in the second half against Indonesia in the qualifiers and scoring back-to-back goals. Despite facing Australia, which is known for its physical fitness, Vietnam withstood the onslaught of its opponents.

When attacking, Huang Yingjun did not blindly emphasize speed, did not require players to frequently open their big feet to launch counterattacks, but emphasized short pass cooperation, and sent key passes after teammates found space.

Revealing the Vietnam U20 with two consecutive wins: the meritorious manager recreates the golden generation, and the national football team should learn two points

It is worth emphasizing that after being awarded a controversial penalty in the 83rd minute, the Vietnamese player did not lose his temper, but maintained a calm attitude to the game, and finally won by one goal in the 90th minute. Vietnamese media pointed out, "Tactical factors aside, if this attitude continues, then the Vietnam U20 will go far." ”

In contrast, the fitness of the U20 national team was obviously a big problem, and Hu Hetao had cramps in the 58th minute and was forced to leave the game early. Baihlamu was also physically weak, and was repeatedly broken through by opponents in the second half and also withdrew early.

In terms of attitude to the game, the national football team was scored twice in a row by the opponent in just five minutes, which reflected the players' obvious distraction and discouragement once the opponent broke the deadlock.

Catching up with Southeast Asian football

Seven years ago, under the leadership of Hoang Anh Tong, Vietnam ranked fifth in the U19 U19 World Cup in South Korea, known as the "golden generation" of Vietnamese football, and then reached the final of the U23 Asian Cup, won the 2019 Southeast Asian Games championship, and also entered the Asian round of 12 of the World Preliminary Round.

After two consecutive wins, Vietnam U20 only need to lose to Iran U2 0 in the final round to advance to the quarter-finals, and is expected to complete the miracle of entering the main stage of the World Youth Championship again. On the contrary, since the 2004 Asian Youth Championship, the national youth team has not reached the final four, the last four Asian Youth Championships have stopped the group stage three times, and since 2005, the national football team has not entered the World Youth Championship.

The comparison of the results of the youth team is enough to show that the national football team lost to Vietnam in the round of 12 is not accidental. When the national football team was still "internal consumption", Southeast Asian teams had already achieved a breakthrough in youth training and completed a comeback.

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