In the first match as the "Royal of Southeast Asia", the Vietnam team played a friendly match with the Cambodia team - a team that once affirmed "wanting to impose the game on any opponent, regardless of the opponent being Brazil", as well as becoming the "new king of Southeast Asia" in the future. An interesting match promising to be played at Go Dau Stadium in Binh Duong!
Many people laughed at the statement of an assistant coach from the time Keisuke Honda was a coach, but it is impossible not to see the seriousness and significant progress of Cambodian football. And now, their national team even has cingated players not just 1, from Colombia, Japan, Ivory Coast, South Africa, along with another Japanese coach - Koji Gyotoku.
Therefore, a "pure" Vietnam National Team - because Xuan Son, Filip Nguyen and Van Lam are not gathering this time, playing against the Cambodian team with a naturalized star squad is a reason to get attention. Vietnam won all 5 consecutive matches against Cambodia, in which the last 3 matches did not concede and scored 12 goals. Coach Kim Sang-sik must have known that information, and while central defender Tien Dung does not rate the opponent's naturalized players too highly, the question of concern is what new things the Korean strategist will bring?
He is highly appreciated by experts on his journey to conquer the recent ASEAN Cup Championship, with the highlight being that he almost did not keep the starting lineup. Does that mean that fans are once again interested in who started in tonight's match, March 19? What are the opportunities for young players? What are the opportunities for the newcomers?
And of course, what is equally important is how the whole team will perform without Xuan Son? The high performance of Tien Linh and some other players in the V.League in recent times, after all, still needs to be affirmed by results. The Cambodian team may not be highly appreciated for creating a significant threat, but as mentioned, after 4 years since the last time the two teams met, they have made a lot of progress so as not to be subjective.
