Vietnam Team: Pride must win against CAHN Club

Even with a lot of testing, the 0-4 defeat to Nam Dinh FC will really hurt the Vietnamese team's pride.

The Vietnamese team will need to try harder in the match against CAHN Club.

Photo: Nam Dinh Club

Vietnam team lost heavily to the club

From the beginning, VFF and the Vietnamese team determined that the FIFA Days would be an opportunity to test and experiment with new players while coach Kim Sang-sik focused on bringing the U.23 Vietnam juniors through the qualifying round of the 2026 U.23 Asian Cup.

In fact, the injury storm that caused a series of names like Ngoc Tan, Quang Hai, Hai Long, Van Do, Minh Khoa... to be absent made this training session even more open to new players, contributing to 11/19 names that could play (not counting the 2 goalkeepers).

On July 4, at the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center ( Hanoi ), the Vietnamese team with interim coach Dinh Hong Vinh had their first friendly match with Nam Dinh Club using a squad consisting entirely of great foreign players.

Tuan Tai competes for the ball with foreign player of Nam Dinh Club

Photo: Nam Dinh Club

In the first half, the main squad including Duy Manh, Hoang Duc, Tien Anh, Thanh Chung... lost 0-1 at the end of the first half. In the second half, the Vietnamese team completely changed the lineup with many new names and conceded 3 more goals.

Obviously, even knowing that Nam Dinh Club has deployed a squad consisting entirely of foreign players to play in 4 arenas: V-League, National Cup, AFC Champions League 2 and ASEAN Club Championship, the national team losing 4-0 is a result that is hard to swallow.

Suddenly have to win against CAHN Club

From two unofficial friendly matches of a trial nature, the upcoming friendly match with Hanoi Police Club (CAHN) suddenly has a new goal, as the Vietnamese team must have a better performance and results.

Hoang Duc in the match against Nam Dinh Club

Photo: Nam Dinh Club

Without saying it, all members of the Vietnamese team clearly felt their pride was hurt after the crushing defeat, including Nam Dinh FC who fielded an all-foreign squad. In other words, everyone must be more determined to have a good match and result in the match against CAHN FC on September 7.

Of course, the coaching staff of the Vietnamese team will still try to maintain a balance between using familiar key players to combine with new elements, because the testing goal is still an important goal in this training session.

Anyway, the players' "self-esteem" is also a good thing for the Vietnamese team, stimulating the spirit and quality of the Vietnamese team's training sessions will be pushed higher than the usual level of a training session with a purely experimental meaning.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/doi-tuyen-viet-nam-noi-tu-ai-phai-thang-clb-cahn-185250905135825712.htm