Difficult for Mr. Hien's team

TPO - The attack line lacks breakthrough players like Nguyen Quang Hai before, while behind the scenes of Hanoi Club is sending out bad signals for the championship race.

The break to give time for the Vietnam national team and U23 Vietnam to do their duty has unintentionally become valuable for Hanoi FC. After the first 3 rounds of LPBank V-League 1-2025/26, Mr. Hien's team is causing much concern among football fans when they have only won 1 point.

They are currently one of the four teams at the bottom of the table, with the same number of points as HAGL,SHB Da Nang and Dong A Thanh Hoa. This is one of the worst starts for Hanoi FC in the past decade.

In fact, there are seasons when Hanoi FC starts slowly but accelerates strongly in the later stages. Last season, Coach Makoto’s team also had an impressive “sprint” to win the runner-up position.

Mr. Hien is witnessing a difficult period, an unprecedented long title gap in V-League with Hanoi Club.

However, that was the time when Mr. Hien's team had stability in all three lines, little personnel change and the squad possessed the most outstanding faces in Vietnamese football, capable of turning the game around like Nguyen Quang Hai, Doan Van Hau alongside a strong foreign squad.

But in the past 5 years, they have become the most unstable team when constantly changing head coaches. The fact that many stars like Quang Hai, Dinh Trong, Van Hau, Viet Anh... chose to leave instead of staying, for whatever reason, shows that Hanoi can no longer keep its best players.

Over the past three years, Hanoi FC has relied heavily on Nguyen Van Quyet, but it is undeniable that he is on the other side of the hill. Similarly, Hung Dung and Duy Manh are no longer at their peak.

The most important stopper of Hanoi FC at the moment, central defender Thanh Chung, just played a pretty bad match in a heavy 2-4 defeat against Hanoi Police. After this match, Coach Makoto faced the question of the possibility of leaving his position early.

All signs are bad for Hanoi FC, unless Mr. Hien makes enough moves to reverse the current trend. Otherwise, the championship race will be extremely difficult for Mr. Makoto and his students.

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Source: https://tienphong.vn/kho-cho-doi-bong-nha-bau-hien-post1774902.tpo