Easy

According to the results of the draw for men's football at the 33rd SEA Games, U22 Vietnam is in Group B with U22 Malaysia and U22 Laos. In theory, this is an "easy" group for coach Kim Sang Sik and his team in the first leg of the largest sports event in the region.

Looking at the balance of power, U22 Vietnam possesses a generation of highly rated players. This team not only has a wealth of international experience but also has many factors that have worn and are wearing the Vietnamese national team jersey, having played together for a long time.

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U22 Vietnam has many quality players so the opportunity to win the 33rd SEA Games gold medal is wide open.

And when compared with direct opponents in the group, or in the region, the U22 Vietnam team is not inferior, if not to say a bit better than Thailand and Indonesia in terms of uniformity and investment.

With a favorable group and stable squad, the path to the semi-finals, finals and regaining the SEA Games gold medal seems to be more open than ever for coach Kim Sang Sik and his team.

but... difficult

In theory, U22 Vietnam is the brightest candidate for the SEA Games 33 gold medal. But in reality, it is not that simple, and the difficulty does not lie with the opponent, but with the team of coach Kim Sang Sik.

The biggest difficulty, and also the difficult problem that the Korean strategist has to face, lies in the ability to decide the match through goals.

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However, it will not be easy if the U22 Vietnam attack has not improved its quality.

Looking back at the journey of this generation of players in recent tournaments from U23 Southeast Asia (although they won) to the U23 Asia qualifiers, we can see that their finishing ability is really worrying.

U23 Vietnam (whose core consists of U22 players who will participate in SEA Games 33) always creates an overwhelming game, with many scoring opportunities, but makes it difficult for themselves by wasting opportunities, making victory somewhat difficult and difficult to achieve.

Therefore, in the coming time and especially in the friendly tournament that U22 Vietnam will participate in China next November, coach Kim Sang Sik must improve this, otherwise there is a possibility of repeating the unfortunate failure like in SEA Games 32, the biggest reason is because the strikers are too poor.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/u22-viet-nam-chot-doi-thu-o-sea-games-33-lay-vang-de-ma-kho-2454337.html