Warning from the AFF Cup
In the AFF Cup 2024, Laos and Cambodia teams have created some big surprises. Although these teams could not reach the end of the surprises mentioned, but the impression they left was not small.
The Laos team once made it difficult for the Vietnamese team at the AFF Cup 2024
Cambodia held the Malaysia 2-2 championship candidate in the opening match, the first match of the AFF Cup 2024. It was the match that the country’s country team took ahead of 2-1, until they were equalized at the end of the match.
After that, Cambodia almost Hoa Cuu won the Singapore champion. They only gave up close to the 1-2 button before the lion island nation on the opponent’s field, because of two silly mistakes of goalkeeper Vireak Dara. There was no mistake, the face of the match between Cambodia and Singapore may have been very different, the outcome of the Cambodian team at the AFF Cup 2024 is likely to be different. Next, Cambodia also only gives up close to the most traditional Southeast Asian traditional team with 2-3 at the end of the group stage.
On the Laos team, the Zhao Elephant team found an emotional 3-3 draw against the Indonesian champion candidate in the AFF Cup group stage. The Lao team immediately continued to draw the Philippines 1-1. They were only eliminated by the 2-3-to-2-3 loss against Myanmar at the end of the group stage.
Particularly in the match against the Vietnamese team starting Group B of the Southeast Asian Football Championship last year, the Laos team kept clean sheets in the first half, before falling in the second half, mainly because their physical strength was decided.
The above results reflect the two teams of Laos and Cambodia at this time no longer “roads” in Southeast Asia. Even the giants of regional football such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, or Singapore want to win the Laos team and the Cambodian team are not as simple as before.
Cambodia has a naturalized player, Laos has the same play as the Vietnamese team
The list of Cambodian teams preparing to play friendly with the Vietnamese team, up to 6 naturalized players, born outside Cambodia. These players include central defender Kan Mo (South Africa), Takaki Ose (Japan), midfielder Yudai Ogawa (Japan), Nick Taylor (USA), striker Andrés Nieto (Colombia) and Abdel Kader Coulibaly (Ivory Coast).
The Vietnamese team showed determination before 2 matches FIFA Days in March, against Cambodia and Laos
Of these, Abdel Kader Coulibaly scored 2 goals at the AFF Cup 2024, both goals against strong teams, including Malaysia and Thailand. The strength of this African player is the speed and fitness. Meanwhile, Japanese players including Takaki Ose and Yudai Ogawa help the Cambodian team to maintain technical play and small group coordination.
Previously, when it comes to the Cambodian team, people often think of the “iron nail” kick of the team player of the country of the pagoda. However, at present, the team of coach Koji Gyotoku (Japanese) has been much different. Firstly, they were stronger than before, so there was no need to play in the way to defeat the opponent anymore. Second, that kick was backward. The Cambodian team is currently led by a Japanese coach, who has a modern thought blowing into the stone style of his team holding the army.
On the Laos team, the strongest point of this team if playing with the Vietnamese team is that they have a similar gameplay to the team of coach Kim Sang-Sik. Leading the Zhao Elephant team, Kim Sang-Sik, coach Ha Hyeok-Jun.
Koreans have a habit of building tightness for the team they hold the army. In addition, due to the same school, Mr. Ha Hyeok-Jun understands what coach Kim Sang-Sik applies to the Vietnamese team. That is the reason that the Vietnamese team is almost deadlocked against the Lao team in the first 60 minutes, in the clash between the two teams in the AFF Cup group stage.
Laos could not hold longer because the qualities of the Lao player were not equal to the quality of Vietnamese players, the physical foundation of the Lao player was not as good. However, it is also a signal for coach Kim Sang-Sik to find new features for the Vietnamese team, when we reunite the Lao team on March 25, within the framework of the 3rd round of the Asian Cup 2027.
To comprehensively, the Vietnamese team is still stronger than the opponent, but as captain Do Duy Manh said: “Don’t think that winning against Cambodia and Laos is easy.” Because, at present, the country’s team of pagoda and the team of Zhao Elephant country is no longer the same as before.
