Before leaving for New Zealand to attend the biggest women’s football festival on the planet, the goal of the Portuguese women’s team is to pass the group stage. However, in the first match, despite great efforts, coach Francisco Neto’s army received a 0-1 defeat against the Dutch women’s team. Therefore, the coaching board of the Portuguese women’s team evaluated the competition against the Vietnamese women’s team on July 27 as extremely important.
Sharing with Portuguese media, coach Francisco Neto said he would let the players attack the game from the beginning. The representative from Europe wants to have a big victory to decide his own fate in the last match.
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The 42-year-old captain declared: “Above all, what we need is a Portuguese that controls the ball, dominates the game from the start. The Portuguese women’s team will try to score in the last third of the field. A Portuguese squad with many players with dynamic attacking play, ready to approach the opponent’s penalty area, ready to launch many shots will be present.
We lost the game against the Netherlands. But even if the outcome is different, the next two games have to be faced in the same way that we want to win. Our error rate has to be smaller and no more mistakes are allowed.”
A squad with many attacking players will be selected by coach Francisco Neto from the beginning in the match against the Vietnamese women’s team.
Jessica Silva (right) is the most dangerous attacking player of the Portuguese women’s team
By page RTP SportThe coaching staff of the Portuguese women’s team has carefully studied the football style of the Vietnamese women’s team. They sat together for many hours to watch the opening match between the Vietnamese women’s team and the US women’s team. In addition, the friendly matches before the 2023 Women’s World Cup between the Vietnamese women’s team, Germany and New Zealand are also meticulously studied.
Coach Francisco Neto’s team also took screenshots of each ball situation on the field to analyze the operation of the play style of coach Mai Duc Chung’s teachers and students. Therefore, coach Francisco Neto assessed that the upcoming match will not be easy for him and his students.
“The whole match against the US, and especially with Germany and New Zealand, the girls of Vietnam always had very dangerous situations. They are very fast in their transition from defense to attack. They have many skillful players, that is great strength, is the main attacking force of Vietnam. We always have to be as balanced and respectful as possible, because this is a World Cup game and whoever is here has quality. We have to be very careful at the moment when we lose the ball and when Vietnam recovers the ball.
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They always play with a player commonly known as a libero, which is always potentially dangerous for the opponent. Team Vietnam has a lot of physical strength, ready to press the long ball for the players to shoot speed. And if that happens, above all, they must quickly close the gap,” the Portuguese women’s coach continued.
The Portuguese women’s team carefully researched the counter-attacking defensive tactics of the Vietnamese women’s team
The match between the Vietnamese women’s team and the Portuguese women’s team will take place at Waikato Stadium (TP.Hamilton). Notably, this is the place where coach Francisco Neto’s army won 2-1 against the Cameroon women’s team in the play-off match taking place in February 2023 to be present at the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Therefore, the players of the Portuguese women’s team consider TP.Hamilton as their “home ground”. The representative of Europe hopes this will give them strength to win all 3 points for the upcoming match.