Ho Chi Minh City Police Club continues to surprise?

Công An TP.HCM - Ảnh 1. — Rookie Raphael Utzig will be the new unknown of CATP Club - Photo: CAHCM FC

This match takes place at 7:15 p.m. today (August 22,FPT Play THTT) at Hang Day Stadium.

In the opening match, TC-VT drew 1-1 with the strong candidate for the championship, Hanoi Police Club. This result made it difficult for coach Velizar Popov and his team to be satisfied and forced to find their first win in the match against CATP Club at home.

Attractive confrontation

But CATP Club also marched to Hanoi with the desire to win. On the day of its re-launch, the name that was once the pride of the city's fans, CATP Club had a resounding victory over the strong opponent Hanoi.

Therefore, coach Le Huynh Duc and his team have nothing to fear when facing TC-VT, a team that is also highly regarded for its national team players. Although the foreign players of the army team do not have high transfer fees, they have a lot of experience in the V-League. Among them, the most prominent is rookie striker Lucao who just scored in his debut match.

Not only is the match worth watching, the confrontation between the two coaches Le Huynh Duc and Velizar Popov is also highly anticipated. Both have built a formidable counter-attacking defense strategy, know how to exploit the potential of young or less-known players and urge their students to play passionately.

In just 3 short weeks, Coach Le Huynh Duc has built a CATP Club team full of fighting spirit and ready to create surprises. Coach Velizar Popov has affirmed his worth after many successful seasons at Thanh Hoa Club and now TC-VT.

Waiting for the next surprise from CATP Club

CATP Club has prepared extremely carefully for the away match against TC-VT. Before leaving for Hanoi on the afternoon of August 20, coach Le Huynh Duc and his team took the opportunity to practice in the morning to perfect their tactics.

Although the team is confident in their attack after the victory over Hanoi, they still have many weaknesses that need to be fixed in their defense. If Vietnamese-American goalkeeper Patrik Le Giang had not played well under the tremendous pressure of Hanoi FC in the second half, CATP FC would have had difficulty winning all 3 points.

In the context that the domestic force does not have many stars due to the rather urgent transfer, CATP Club has proactively chosen high-quality and valuable foreign players to improve the squad.

Accordingly, in addition to central defender Matheus Felipe (Brazil) who is valued at 1 million euros by transfermarkt - the most expensive in V-League, coach Le Huynh Duc has just chosen winger Raphael Utzig, valued at 850,000 euros, to support the two strikers Tien Linh and Mbo Noel. It can be seen that the level of spending money on buying quality foreign players of CATP Club is only second to the defending champion Nam Dinh.

Raphael Utzig only had his second training session with his new teammates yesterday (August 21), so the ability of this player with dual German and Brazilian nationality to integrate with CATP Club is still a question mark.

However, under the training of coach Le Huynh Duc, all strikers can shine. In the match against Hanoi FC, rookie Tien Linh was the one who scored the opening goal. Mbo Noel was the one who drew the opponent's defense before passing to Vo Huy Toan who dribbled into the penalty area and scored, raising the score to 2-0.

After the defeat, coach Makoto Teguramori of Hanoi FC admitted that he did not have enough information about CATP FC to effectively prevent them. And now, coach Le Huynh Duc is also giving another surprise to coach Velizar Popov, when he has a new attack plan.

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