According to FIFA, Hoang Thi Loan is considered the most interesting player of the Vietnamese women's team. Since the beginning of the tournament, she has always been coach Mai Duc Chung's number 1 choice for the left-back position.

The world's most powerful football agency assessed that in the match against the US team, Hoang Thi Loan made Trinity Rodman silent in her debut before playing confidently to help the Vietnamese women's team keep the loss low against Portugal.

FIFA believes that a point at the World Cup is enough to mark a successful tournament for the Vietnamese women's team and Hoang Thi Loan needs to be at her best for coach Mai Duc Chung's team to achieve that goal. "Hoang Thi Loan will command the defense - which will certainly face great pressure - and continue her impressive individual performances in the first two matches," FIFA said.

FIFA praised Hoang Thi Loan's recent performance. Photo: FIFA

In addition, FIFA also mentioned Hai Linh and predicted that the player born in 2001 will return to the starting lineup. Hai Linh played as a central midfielder with Thai Thi Thao in the match against the US, then she returned her position to her senior Duong Thi Van in the match against Portugal.

“The Vietnamese women’s team will need to make a huge effort in Group E when facing the defending champions the United States, the runners-up the Netherlands and Portugal. Although the tournament is about to end for them, coach Mai Duc Chung and his team want to leave with at least one goal, or a surprising result,” FIFA said.

The Vietnamese women's team did not have a chance to get past the group stage in their first World Cup appearance. This was not surprising at all because the Vietnamese girls were in the same group with the world's top opponents. After the first two matches, the Vietnamese women's team had not won any points and had not scored any goals.

Coach Mai Duc Chung and his team only set a modest goal of finding their first goal in the world's biggest tournament. However, this is still considered a very difficult task for Huynh Nhu and her teammates because the Netherlands is the current runner-up of the tournament.

The match between the Vietnamese women's team and the Netherlands will take place at 2:00 p.m. on August 1 ( Hanoi time).

THAI MINH (according to FIFA)

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