{"id":36699,"date":"2019-06-12T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36699"},"modified":"2019-06-12T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T21:09:11","slug":"draw-with-iran-was-fair-paulo-bento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/12\/draw-with-iran-was-fair-paulo-bento\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw with Iran was fair: Paulo Bento"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>South Korea coach Paulo Bento said the 1-1 draw with Iran national football team was a fair result.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the 60,000-plus fans at Seoul World Cup Stadium watching South Korea play Iran to a 1-1 draw in a friendly on Tuesday would have felt slightly disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was a competitive, evenly played match, and both sides had their share of chances,&#8221; Bento said. &#8220;As the match progressed, both teams tightened things up on defense, and there were fewer scoring chances. We dominated the match for a stretch, but Iran also controlled the pace for a few minutes. I think the result was fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked what it would take for South Korea to beat Iran, Bento said he&#8217;ll continue to look forward and not dwell on the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not appropriate for me to talk about past matches against Iran,&#8221; Bento said. &#8220;We just have to keep focusing on our strengths.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, South Korea coach Paulo Bento said the 1-1 draw with Iran national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1091,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699","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=36699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36701,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36699\/revisions\/36701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}