Head coach Park Hang-seo: “U22 Vietnam needs to focus again on the match with Thailand”

Head coach Park Hang-seo remained that U22 Vietnam has to early forget the victory over U22 Singapore to forward to the last match with Thailand.

Head coach Park Hang-seo said: “We had to try the best, until the latest minutes to win. However, we are not too happy, we have to early forget this victory to have a good preparation for the important match with Thailand”.

Discuss the match with U22 Singapore, head coach Park Hang-seo said, in the first half, the whole team faced many difficulties, the players showed signs of deadlock and could not reach the opponent’s goal. “In the break time, I said to them to keep calm, do not be stress, and after that, we played better. I always want to get the goal and win easily, but sometimes we cannot do that. The opponent today is not easy to defeat”. Mr. Park shared.

Explained about the decision to use Van Toan as a goalkeeper instead of Bui Tien Dung, head coach Park hang-seo said: “Please do not misunderstand. I am not replacing Bui Tien Dung because of his fault in the match with Indonesia. Dung is a very good goalkeeper, however, Singapore, they have the advantage of the high-pitched play, therefore I chose Van Toan who is more suitable. Other personnel changes come from the competitive density of the matches. We have to change to help the players avoid overloading and reduce the risk of injury”.

The victory 1-0 over Singapore helps Vietnam have 12 points while the other two opponents (Philippines and Thailand) have 9 points. In the next match with Thailand on 5th Dec, even loss for Thailand 0-1, U22 Vietnam still can go into the semi-final. In case of losing with more goals, Vietnam will keep going if Indonesia cannot defeat Laos at the same time match.