{"id":35012,"date":"2019-01-14T09:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35012"},"modified":"2019-01-14T09:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:54:07","slug":"katanec-says-iraq-to-play-better-soccer-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/14\/katanec-says-iraq-to-play-better-soccer-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Katanec says Iraq to play better soccer against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Xinhua &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iraqi national soccer team coach Srecko Katanec said that his boys will play a better game against stronger teams like Iran in the ongoing 2019 AFC Asian Cup, Persian Football reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t compare the match we had with Vietnam and Yemen with the match (we are going to have) against Iran,&#8221; Katanec said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Vietnam played very fluid soccer for the first 45 minutes and we came out on top. Against Yemen, we were a little complacent and maybe that&#8217;s why we need to play a strong team, on paper, like Iran,&#8221; the Slovenian coach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq will play Group D leader Iran in its final tie on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll give chances for other players in the next game against Iran. We will see. I can&#8217;t say for sure what my tactics will be against Iran, maybe three at the back, four or even five,&#8221; Katanec added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq now sit second in Group D with six points from two matches at the ongoing AFC Asian Cup competitions held in the UAE from January 5 to February 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua &#8211; DUBAI, Iraqi national soccer team coach Srecko Katanec said that his boys will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1378,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35014,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions\/35014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}