Without resolving the dispute, the Vietnamese team may fall behind.

Coach Tran Cong Minh commented: "When the Indonesian players play hard and try to close in on the Vietnamese players, it is very difficult for us to play. The players have less space and time to handle the ball, and even feel frustrated by this style of play from the opponent."

The Vietnamese team’s ability to compete one-on-one in the match against Indonesia was not good. The small midfielders of coach Troussier’s team were outclassed by the strong players of Indonesia.

The Vietnamese team (red shirts) needs to improve their ability to compete.

If they do not improve their one-on-one competition, the Vietnamese team may face difficulties in Southeast Asia, not just in Asian tournaments like in previous years. Because, currently, there are quite a few Southeast Asian teams that possess tall, physically strong players.

In particular, like the Indonesian team, the Thai and Malaysian teams have also significantly improved their physical fitness. Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia are teams that often compete for rankings with the Vietnamese team in regional tournaments.

Talking about the Thai team, in the match against Kyrgyzstan on January 16, this team used the "giant" central defender pair Pansa Hemviboon and Elias Dolah when Pansa Hemviboon is 1.90 m tall, and Elias Dolah is 1.96 m tall.

The players playing along the vertical axis of the Golden Temple team are also quite tall. They have goalkeeper Patiwat Khammai (1.87 m), defensive midfielder Weerathep Pomphan (1.82 m) and striker Supachai Chaided (1.83 m).

In addition to the players playing vertically: Goalkeeper - center back - central midfielder - center forward, the Thai team also has right back Nicholas Mickelson (1.85 m), also a player who is not afraid of collision.

The next notable thing is that among the above mentioned players, except for center back Elias Dolah (who has part Swedish blood) and right back Nicholas Mickelson (who has part Norwegian blood), the rest are all pure Thai football players.

Thailand (right) fought very well

This detail reflects that the Golden Temple team is consciously aiming for the general formula of modern football. In addition to technical factors, players must be good at competing, because modern football is increasingly energy-consuming and takes place at increasingly high speeds.

Meanwhile, on the Malaysian team's side, the number of naturalized players is even greater than the number of naturalized players in Indonesia (up to 12/26 Malaysian players participating in the 2023 Asian Cup were born outside Malaysia).

Of course, having many naturalized players is not always good. A team with many naturalized players is not necessarily a good team. But if they know that the weakness of the Vietnamese team is poor one-on-one competition, they will focus their tall players on exploiting the weakness of the Vietnamese team, before forcing us to reveal our weaknesses.

Coach Troussier's team is not without players who are both skilled and have good physiques to use, for example left-back Doan Van Hau (1.86 m), central midfielder Nguyen Duc Chien (1.83 m), right-back Ho Tan Tai (1.80 m)...

But due to injuries and the current tactical requirements of Coach Troussier, they have not been used. Anyway, the loss to Indonesia has shown the Vietnamese team its own weaknesses, before we have the opportunity to correct our mistakes in the next matches.

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