Coach Kiatisak is especially pleased with Van Toan’s performance

Coach Kiatisak directed HAGL to play quite impressively against Yokohama F.Marinos Independence

At the beginning of the press conference, coach Kiatisak said: “Before the match, I told the players to play with the right tactical intentions and they did well. Yokohama F.Marinos club has diverse tactics so it is difficult to deal with.

HAGL lost by 2 goals but I am satisfied with the way of playing. The players will have more lessons to mature and adapt better. This is the first game so we don’t have much information about Yokohama. We just play our way.”

At the first return to the AFC Champions League arena after 17 years of separation, coach Kiatisak and HAGL played quite impressively against the big Yokohama F.Marinos from Japan.

Van Toan describes the conflict between the players of Yokohama F.Marinos Independence

Despite losing 2 goals from set pieces, HAGL shortened the score to 1-2 and especially had an impressive second half, creating many opportunities and showing no weakness in front of the opponent.

“Van Toan played well, he moved a lot, causing a lot of trouble for Yokohama. He plays very actively. I gave him the opportunity to play the full 90 minutes after a long time without playing.

Last year HAGL played well with the 3-5-2 formation, so this year we promoted it because the whole team understood the game well. Yokohama F.Marinos strong so we used last year’s diagram.

Today’s match, we analyzed the video very carefully about how Yokohama F.Marinos played. In the next match, HAGL will overcome the weakness to prepare better against Sydney FC”, Coach Kiatisak expressed.