The domestic playground has become too unpredictable, surprise after surprise!

Hanoi FC is the most successful team in Vietnamese football today, with 6 V-League champions (2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2022), 3 times winning the National Cup (2019, 2020 and 2020). 2022), won the National Football Super Cup 5 times (2010, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022). These are all record parameters of Vietnamese football.

Hanoi FC also contributed many national players to the Vietnamese team, which just won the AFF Cup, including defenders Xuan Manh, Thanh Chung, Duy Manh, midfielder Hai Long, striker Tuan Hai. Even players from Hanoi FC who do not participate in the AFF Cup 2024, such as Van Quyet, Hung Dung, Van Tung, Van Truong… also have the best quality in the country. They have played for the Vietnamese and U.23 Vietnam teams recently.

However, Hanoi FC still lost to lower-ranked team Dong Thap. That shows that any result is possible in domestic tournaments. Big teams, if they lack focus, or lack a little luck, can still fail against teams that are theoretically considered weaker.

Hanoi FC’s loss can make this team sad. However, looking from another perspective, surprise is one of the factors that make the domestic tournament attractive. Surprise helps domestic tournaments become unpredictable, and at the same time motivates “small” and weak teams to make more efforts. If the underdog teams make efforts, they can do big things, like what Dong Thap Football Club just did against Hanoi in the National Cup on the evening of January 12.

Previously, in the V-League, names like HAGL, Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh also created surprises for the tournament. The fact that HAGL, Ha Tinh and partly Thanh Hoa have at times risen to the top of the V-League makes the national championship playing field difficult to predict. From these surprises, a few pillars of the HAGL and Thanh Hoa teams, such as Chau Ngoc Quang, goalkeeper Tran Trung Kien, or Doan Ngoc Tan, were noticed by coach Kim Sang-sik, summoning them to the Vietnamese team. , before they contributed to helping the Vietnamese team win the 2024 AFF Cup.

Therefore, the things mentioned above create motivation for weak teams, creating motivation for players on weak teams. They will make more efforts, with the belief that they can completely achieve success, both collectively and individually, in case they make it big against big teams!