Viettel - Phnom Penh Crown: Maintain the top of the AFC Cup table?

*Viettel - Phnom Penh Crown: 17h Monday 27/6, on Metasports.

Viettel started strongly and won Young Elephants 5-1 despite being led in the match. On the contrary, after leading the two goals, Phnom Penh Crown lost to Hougang Utd (Singapore) 3-4.

In the formation of Phnom Penh Crown, there are some quality foreign soldiers, Andres Nieto, Takaki Ose, Sadat and U23 players such as Pisa, Channav, Brak Thiva, Champolin, Yue Safi ... led them as Ukrainian coach Oleg Starynskyi. However, this team is going through instability. Despite being the championship, they only ranked sixth in eight teams in the national tournament through seven battles (winning one, drawing four, losing two).

Therefore, if you keep playing properly, Viettel is completely capable of winning. "After watching the match of Phnom Penh Crown, I saw it was a good team, played blood, coordinated smoothly," coach Bae Jin-Won said. "However, I believe the Viettel players will play better than the match to aim for a victory."

This battle, the Korean military leader is likely to arrange for Nham Manh Dung or Tran Danh Trung to play. According to him, the young Viettel players are very potential, always desire to play and be able to compete with foreign troops to have the main kick. The biggest problem of Viettel is probably the defense, where the lack of center -back Bui Tien Dung because of injury. It was this loose that made Viettel receive the first goal against Young Elephants.

Viettel is having a balance between the routes, which can impose the pace of the match at any time. Even so, midfielder Nguyen Hoang Duc is still cautious, especially when the two teams have never confronted each other in history. "I don't know about Phnom Penh Crown, but I know they have many Cambodian players in the squad. We need to respect the opponent," he said.