Vietnamese only runs 75% compared to the Premier League players

Park Hang-seo is planning to change the game play for the Vietnamese team in the upcoming tournaments. At the recent press conference, the Korean strategist revealed that he would continue to use the three-midfield scheme, but there is a change in the attack pattern. He wants to take advantage of the resources of the midfielders, because Vietnamese football has many excellent midfielders.

Mr. Park added: “In addition to changing the game play, through the analysis of the game, we also aim to change the percentage of possession, increasing at least 5-10% of the time compared to the present time. The balanced formation can be considered quite good, but I also want to push the formation up about 5-10meters to attack close to the opponent's goal.

Another big change that Park Hang-seo wants to make is to improve the players' fitness. The Korean strategist said that a foreign player usually runs about 10km / match. However, in Vietnam only about 4-5 players can do this.

In the Premier League, a player who runs the most averages more than 13km per game. The record of the player who runs the most in a match belongs to Wolverhampton's Leander Dendoncker, against Brighton on March 7, 2020. The Belgian ran a total of 13.21 km, followed by Dele Alli and James Milner respectively, both achieving over 13 km / game, not to mention that the players in the Premier League play with a dense frequency, averaging about 2 games / week.

Of course, our gap with the world's top players is still very big. Those are the statistics of the distance running. In addition, at high-speed jerk distance, which means that in counterattack situations, Vietnamese players can only reach 300meters while the best standard must be 500meters. Park Hang-seo will have to strengthen exercises to improve maximum fitness for the players of the Vietnamese team.