Hanoi FC chasing Nam Dinh Green Steel

Playing away from home in round 19, Hanoi FC and Nam Dinh Blue Steel had different results. While Hanoi FC won 3-0 at Becamex Binh Duong's Go Dau Stadium with the brilliant performance of foreign player Bobicanec, Nam Dinh Blue Steel only got 1 point after a 1-1 draw against host SHB Da Nang.

Both of these results were beyond the experts' predictions because few people thought Hanoi FC could win 3-0 at Go Dau against an opponent with many national and U23 players like Becamex Binh Duong, and not many people thought that SHB Da Nang would be able to hold off Thep Xanh Nam Dinh with a much more overwhelming squad and strength.

However, the final result on the field showed the complete opposite of the prediction before the ball rolled, and that contributed to the attractive and unpredictable nature of the king sport like football.

Hanoi FC and Nam Dinh Blue Steel are also 2 of the away teams that have scored points after the end of round 19, because in this round, only Hai Phong and Dong A Thanh Hoa are the 2 rare home teams that have won completely, while the remaining 5 home teams either accepted to share points or had to accept empty-handed results.

Round 19 also witnessed the appearance of 2 foreign referee teams in 2 matches of great significance to the championship race and the relegation battle, respectively Dong A Thanh Hoa-The Cong Viettel and Song Lam Nghe An-Quang Nam, and the referees in these 2 matches all completed their tasks excellently.

However, foreign referees or the VAR system are just two of the factors contributing to fairness and accuracy in V.League 2024/25, because the most basic and important condition is still the awareness of the participants in the game, specifically the leaders, coaching staff of the teams as well as the players.

Round 19 of V.League witnessed a very serious incident at Pleiku Stadium in the Hoang Anh Gia Lai-Hong Linh Ha Tinh match, when the representative of Hoang Anh Gia Lai team had excessive and unacceptable reactions to the referees working in this match.

It is worth mentioning that when the Hoang Anh Gia Lai football team posted the incident on the club's official Fanpage, the majority of comments here expressed support for the decision of the referee team working in the match, which shows that the reaction of the team's representative to the referees at Pleiku Stadium was lacking restraint and deserved to be condemned.

All efforts to bring a fair and objective playground to V.League 2024/25 will be meaningless if a group of individuals participating in the game do not comply with the rules and regulations, overreact, lack restraint just to satisfy personal opinions, causing the image of the tournament in particular and the image of Vietnamese football to be seriously damaged.

Such behaviour must cease immediately and appropriate disciplinary measures must be taken to ensure that they do not have a negative impact on the tournament.