Van Duc travels to Singapore for surgery, and spends one year to recover

Earlier, V-League round 13 saw SLNA Phan Van Duc’s injury recurrence in a training session just before the confrontation with HAGL. He twisted his legs in a sharp turn that led to the pain in his knee.

After going to Hanoi, Phan Van Duc's knee injury is much more serious than the initial prediction. The results showed that the Nghe An player was completely cut off the frontal ligaments, diagonal external ligament edema, the cartilage was torn behind.

In the latest development, coach Nguyen Duc Thang of SLNA has confirmed, Phan Van Duc will have to go to Singapore to do surgery. It is known that the team has worked with an insurance company working in V-League to ensure that the treatment process of Phan Van Duc does not encounter any big problems.

Singapore is considered a pretty reliable place for Vietnamese players to conduct surgeries or long-term trauma treatment routes. With Phan Van Duc, Tran Dinh Trong is also going to Singapore to treat the knee ligament injury that was encountered in the match against HAGL in the V-League round 12.

With this serious injury, Phan Van Duc will miss the rest of V-League and is expected to take about a year to return to the pitch. The absence of this striker has made SLNA difficult in recent times. Nghe's team has experienced 6 games remaining winless, before winning 3 points completely on home field over HAGL in the latest round.

Not only SLNA, Vietnam national team will also be more or less affected by the injury of Phan Van Duc when Coach Park Hang-seo will lose a dangerous attack on the left wing.