Malaysia faces 3 classy 'nemeses': Handsome, talented and all have won the Golden Ball!

In the match on June 10, the home team Malaysia will face a big challenge when facing 3 very classy "nemeses" from Vietnam.

How did Malaysia concede?

The current Vietnamese team has 3 players who are very lucky to score goals for Malaysia, namely striker Nguyen Tien Linh and midfielders Nguyen Quang Hai and Nguyen Hoang Duc. They are all 3 special talents of Vietnamese football. The common point of these 3 players is that they have all been awarded the Vietnamese Golden Ball award.

Hoang Duc (14), one of the players that the Malaysian team must be wary of

Photo: Minh Hoang

Quang Hai scored against Malaysia in the first leg of the 2022 World Cup Asian qualifiers on October 10, 2019. Quang Hai's goal brought a narrow 1-0 victory for Vietnam at My Dinh Stadium.

Quang Hai (No. 19)

Tien Linh (right)

At the 2020 AFF Cup, Quang Hai scored 1 goal in the 3-0 victory of the Vietnamese team over Malaysia in the group stage, which took place in Singapore. Before that, in the second leg of the 2018 AFF Cup final at My Dinh Stadium, Quang Hai did not directly score, but he had the decisive pass for Anh Duc to score, helping the Vietnamese team win 1-0 in the second leg, winning 3-2 overall after 2 matches, thereby winning the championship.

Another player who also scored 2 goals against Malaysia is midfielder Nguyen Hoang Duc, including 1 goal in the group stage match of AFF Cup 2020 and 1 goal in the group stage of AFF Cup 2022. Coincidentally, both of these matches ended with a 3-0 victory in favor of the Vietnamese team.

Not only that, the Vietnamese team now has another player who is extremely lucky to score against the Malaysian team, that is striker Nguyen Tien Linh. The player who won the Golden Ball of Vietnam in 2024 has scored 2 goals against the Malaysian team and 1 goal against the U.23 team of this country.

Of Tien Linh's 2 goals against the Malaysian team, 1 was in the second leg of the 2nd qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup in Asia, on June 11, 2021, in the UAE. Another goal Tien Linh scored in the group stage of the 2022 AFF Cup, at My Dinh Stadium. The goal Tien Linh scored against the U.23 Malaysia team took place at the 31st SEA Games in 2022, at Viet Tri Stadium in Phu Tho (U.23 Vietnam won 1-0).

Currently, Tien Linh, Quang Hai and Hoang Duc are all pillars of the Vietnamese national team. Tien Linh is the leading striker of the team under coach Kim Sang-sik, Hoang Duc is the best central midfielder of the team at present, and Quang Hai is a star with the ability to explode very well.

The fact that they often score against the Malaysian team is not a coincidence. Malaysian football circles are often afraid of players with good technique, combined with cunning like Quang Hai, Hoang Duc and Tien Linh. The technique of the above players is the nemesis of the tall but slow defense of Malaysia.

In addition, compared to previous years, Quang Hai, Tien Linh and Hoang Duc have now improved in terms of experience and international competition skills. Therefore, they continue to be the great hope of the Vietnamese team when we meet Malaysia again on June 10, in the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/malaysia-doi-mat-3-khac-tinh-dang-cap-dep-trai-tai-hoa-va-deu-tung-gianh-qua-bong-vang-185250605200337665.htm