After 8 rounds of LPBank V-League, Ninh Binh is leading the rankings with 20 points, 3 points more than CAHN in 2nd place, 5 points more than The Cong Viettel ...

V-League has only gone through about 1/3 of the way, and it is too early to talk about the championship ability of Ninh Binh as well as any team. However, the team of the ancient capital Hoa Lu is showing great determination, in addition to the advantages they have over their main opponents.

This season, Ninh Binh only has to focus on two fronts: V-League and National Cup, with the focus on V-League. Meanwhile, the two candidates for the V-League championship, CAHN and Thep Xanh Nam Dinh, have to participate in 4 tournaments, leading to the risk of overload and injury.

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Ninh Binh have not lost any match in V-League.

In fact, Nam Dinh Green Steel is showing signs of a force crisis, even after investing in buying up to 15 foreign players to participate in continental and regional tournaments. A series of pillars of the Southern team are injured due to having to compete at a high frequency. To have enough players, Nam Dinh Green Steel even prepared a plan to push goalkeeper Nguyen Manh to play as... striker.

Meanwhile, CAHN, although not in the same predicament as Nam Dinh Blue Steel, must also carefully calculate their forces, not only aiming to win the V-League but also go deep in the Southeast Asian Club Cup and AFC Champions League Two 2025/26.

Another V-League championship candidate, Hanoi FC, had a slow start and had to change their head coach. The gap between the capital team and Ninh Binh is currently 9 points.

As for The Cong Viettel, if they want to compete for the championship, they need to cherish every point. In the most recent match, Coach Popov’s team unexpectedly lost 1-2 to HAGL. This is also the first loss of the army team in V-League this season.

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Quoc Viet and his teammates scored 20 goals after 8 matches.

Thus, Ninh Binh is having a certain advantage from the fact that its opponents are weak and unstable. However, Hoang Duc and his teammates are also showing that they are competing fairly and deserve to be crowned if they continue to perform like in the past rounds.

Ninh Binh currently has the strongest attack in V-League (20 goals), with players scoring evenly in all three lines. Defensively, goalkeeper Dang Van Lam's goal has only conceded 7 goals, an average of 0.88 goals per match. They are one of 2 teams that have not lost a match in V-League (along with CAHN).

In terms of playing style, Ninh Binh controls the ball with small, short-touch combinations. Notably, Ninh Binh is one of the teams that often scores at the end of the match, showing the high physical strength and fighting spirit of the players.

Overall, Ninh Binh is the strongest candidate for the championship and they are taking steps to complete their goal, but certainly everything will not be easy to achieve because V-League is always a fierce and unpredictable tournament.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/loi-the-cua-ninh-binh-trong-cuoc-dua-vo-dich-v-league-2457198.html