Vòng 22 V.League

Round 22 saw S. Khanh Hoa (S.KH) take one step closer to the first class return train.

Although having to be a guest, before Quang Nam lost 4 pillars at the same time because of the penalty card, injury and Tam Ky is a place that has never lost since coming to V.Legue (3 seasons ago were draw), but teachers and coach Vo Dinh Tan conceded 4 goals again. Ironically, after nine matches since the return leg, Patiyo opened the shot for S.KH for the first time, also a double against the old club that he once crowned the top scorer in the 2015 season, but the team still beat the table. cannot be converted.

Buried at 20 points S.KH was widened the gap when HAGL with the full-line lineup still defeated SHB.ĐN 2-1 to take Saigon and Hai Phong together. Meanwhile, although the game did not win in the long run, the number 7 (6 defeats) dropped without braking to the penultimate but Thanh Hoa was 5 points more than S.KH.

In the first group race, due to Hanoi not playing (Nam Dinh's match will be replenished on September 11), with the upstream victory against SLNA 2-1, Ho Chi Minh City temporarily closed the gap with the first one has 2 points left. However, in the 3rd position, after 10 consecutive rounds of holding Than QN, they lost to the opponent they collapsed at home in this round, B.Binh Duong. An inevitable consequence when the land team goes through a series of 5 games without winning (2 losses, 3 draws).

V.League will pause for nearly 3 weeks for the two teams to do the national task before entering the last 4 rounds.

Last season Khanh Hoa ranked third, this year almost relegated. But their case is different from Thanh Hoa. Since 2014, up to four seasons Thanh Hoa is among the top three teams, two seasons competing for the championship. That means Thanh Hoa is a strong team, not a phenomenon. Despite having to sell many players earlier in the season, 9 of Thanh Hoa's current squad have been national players and U23.

Not to mention far, this season Thanh Hoa also makes everyone look up at this time. They experienced eight consecutive unbeaten matches at the end of the first phase, including a 4-1 victory over Hanoi or a draw of Ho Chi Minh City 0-0 at Thong Nhat Stadium. After 13 matches of the first phase, they reached 18 points and ranked fifth with only three losses. The impressive series of achievements also lasted to the second stage, when Thanh Hoa won two more matches to reach the group to compete for the championship.

However, from round 16, Thanh Hoa won only one point after seven matches. They lost six matches, including the last four without scoring a goal and conceding 13 times. Before those "tattered" defeats, Thanh Hoa even scored more goals than Hanoi - the team that is leading all statistics today. Thanh Hoa's performance is like a death rush of a downhill vehicle with lost brakes or brakes but no one wants to use it.

After a 0-2 defeat to Saigon last weekend, young defender Le Van Dai hugged his face and sobbed. Many people believe that he cried because he could not believe that the team could be relegated. And that is the painful problem of Thanh football.

Try to book Khanh Hoa case relegated? Nothing will happen. Khanh Hoa once fell to the third place, then returned to the V-League, then because he was a professional footballer ... so tired so he disbanded, transferred the V-League kick to Hai Phong in 2012. But only three years later, by a young route, they returned to the V-League in a way. If I relegated again, nothing would be terrible.

Or like Nam Dinh. Seven years of "disappearing" from the V-League, yet they can still do it again in the Second Division, by the people they have. In all respects, Nam Dinh is inferior to Thanh Hoa but when looking at the happiness scene on Thien Truong stadium, people will see the desire and passion always full. Those are the most intense sources of living football, especially professional football. Another example is HAGL. If Germany is not "bored" of relegating part, the force is not bad, but if it is down, with the internal resources available by his training, returning to V-League is only a matter of time.

Already a professional football, up - relegation is an inevitable part. Being in the cast for a long time is not necessarily good, dropping a few years is not necessarily bad. But Thanh Hoa is a strange case.

In 2003, in the penultimate match of the First Division, Thanh Hoa played the decisive match at Binh Duong Stadium. Just draw, they will be promoted after nearly 10 years without a name on the football map of Vietnam, since the Thanh Hoa Police team dissolved. But in that match, many pillars of Thanh Hoa suddenly played very badly, losing to Binh Duong 0-2 and their leader then Le Thuy Hai bitterly complained: "This team does not want to be promoted. ".

This story shows that having to play at a low level is no stranger to Thanh football, but since winning the right to play V-League in the 2006 season, they have done everything they can to avoid relegation. They are the team that changes the most names compared to other teams in the same time period. From Halida, Cong Thanh to Viettel, Lam Son and FLC ... That's not to mention the times without sponsors, just simply Thanh Hoa.

The instability of Thanh Hoa is also seen in the way they use people. Along with Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son of Binh Duong, coach Hoang Thanh Tung of Thanh Hoa is the one who makes the "temporary coach" most in V-League history. Since 2010, Mr. Tung has been a "stuntman" four times because in Thanh Hoa there is a tradition of replacing coaches like changing clothes. Just two or three games are not good, coach seats, regardless of their ability has been evaluated before. For example, Mr. Le Thuy Hai has four times as a coach in Thanh Hoa, three times in a "fired" status. Another well-known coach, Mai Duc Chung, twice fell into the same situation. Caliber Ljupko Petrovic, who once won the European Cup trophy but after a season working in Thanh Hoa, also proactively said goodbye. His replacement in the 2018 season was the former technical director of the Rumania Football Federation, Mihail Marian also survived only four rounds and resigned because of "unable to manage the player". After bringing the team to second place, with a good performance in the first phase of this season, coach Nguyen Duc Thang also had to break up. Thanh Hoa took Mr. Vu Quang Bao, who had come and gone twice before, to replace him. But this military leader could not stand the heat and ... went on.

What makes Thanh Hoa, where there are passionate fans, with the number of fans "nationwide" coverage no less than Nghe An, always falls into the "running market" each season like that? Even Thanh Hoa players, also have a tradition of exile to find work rather than spend youth for the home team. Those are the cases of Trieu Quang Ha, Le Hong Minh, Mai Tien Thanh or the latest goalkeeper Bui Tien Dung ...

Patience and what's called a long-term strategy don't seem to be in the "dictionary" of Thanh football. They are a vestige of subsidized football. Trying to keep the relegation team is no different from the subsidy period, the team must exist to hold seats for sports leaders. Because he had to try to do things that he did not have enough strength and ripe time to do, Thanh Hoa kept changing and doing things in a hurry, as if they had only two options: or champion, or disappear.

Meanwhile, just last month, Thanh Hoa won the U17 national championship. It was the first sweet fruit of the Thanh Hoa youth routes to be rebuilt four years ago, when FLC Group took over the team. Unfortunately, it is not known how the U17 team will be taken care of, but now FLC has abandoned Thanh Hoa football, and the coach of this young team - the former player Mai Xuan Hop, who is only 33 years old - is hurriedly pressed. for the responsibility to find relegation lines for my home team.

Thanh Hoa may still be ranked above Khanh Hoa, and relegated by winning the team from First place in the play-off, but that does not tell anything but the ruins of a subsidized era that seems to be still there.