{"id":36683,"date":"2019-06-10T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36683"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:13:22","slug":"iran-determined-to-beat-south-korea-marc-wilmots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/10\/iran-determined-to-beat-south-korea-marc-wilmots\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran determined to beat South Korea: Marc Wilmots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Iran football coach Marc Wilmots says that Team Melli will have a tough match against South Korea but they are going to emerge victorious against the Taegeuk Warriors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will play South Korea at Seoul World Cup Stadium in the nation&#8217;s capital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be a good test for Iran since South Korea haven&#8217;t beaten the Middle East powerhouse since January 2011 and are hungry to get revenge on Team Melli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea, ranked 37th, have nine wins, eight draws and 13 losses against the 21st-ranked Iran. They suffered four consecutive 1-0 losses before taking a scoreless draw in a World Cup qualifying match in August 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are ready for the match against South Korea and we want to beat them at their home, however, they are a difficult team to beat in front of their fans\u201d Wilmots said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hate to lose and will do my best not to lose in this match because I know that the critics will put me under pressure,\u201d the ex-Ivory Coast coach added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a friendly match but South Korea and Iran want to win the match and we are going to earn a victory like we did against Syria,\u201d Wilmots said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSouth Korea takes advantage of Son Heung-min who has grown a lot with experience from big tournaments like the UEFA Champions League,\u201d he said about Tottenham Hotspur star.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SEOUL, Iran football coach Marc Wilmots says that Team Melli will have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1378,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683","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=36683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36685,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36683\/revisions\/36685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}