After the 1-0 victory of Ho Chi Minh City Police Club against PVF-CAND in round 16 of LPBank V.League 2025-2026 taking place on the evening of March 15, coach Le Huynh Duc frankly shared about the performance of striker Nguyen Tien Linh - who continued to experience a match without scoring.
According to this coach, the biggest problem for the Vietnamese national team striker at this time is psychological pressure when continuously missing opportunities and not scoring goals for a long time.
He said: "Tien Linh is having pressure problems. When there is no goal, it is even easier to be impatient. Strikers often fall into this situation, when they lose confidence, it is very difficult to regain it.
When asked about the possibility of letting Tien Linh sit on the bench to improve his spirit, Mr. Duc said: "At this time, I wanted to do that but there was no striker. Today Thanh Binh just returned. And Bui Van Binh is not strong enough, he was substituted several times but when starting, he asked to be substituted out in halftime".
Mr. Duc also once again reiterated the limitation of Ho Chi Minh City Police Club in finishing: "Regarding both previous defeats at home, today the attitude of the players is still positive, still hardworking, determined with a spirit of desire.
The team's problem is that they have not improved goals, missing many opportunities. PVF-CAND is not strong, cannot deploy anything. In attack, we have not finished, we need to improve the scoring problem further.
Just attack and don't score, then pay the price, that's football. We have learned many lessons. In the future, the team will try to learn from experience to correct mistakes and improve that issue. We have a lot of things to do.
In addition, he also expressed his joy when goalkeeper Patrik Le Giang had the opportunity to be called up to the Vietnamese national team: "The whole team is very happy when Patrik is called up to the national team. When the team has many players called up, it is joy and honor".
