{"id":37411,"date":"2019-09-01T19:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37411"},"modified":"2019-09-01T19:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T02:19:17","slug":"iran-a-huge-challenge-for-hong-kong-mixu-paatelainen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/01\/iran-a-huge-challenge-for-hong-kong-mixu-paatelainen\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran a huge challenge for Hong Kong: Mixu Paatelainen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; HONG KONG, <strong>Hong Kong head coach Mixu Paatelainen says that his team will have a daunting task against Iran in the 2022 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The East Asian team will host Iran on September 10 at the Hong Kong Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq and Bahrain are also in the group, with the pair meeting in Riffa on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know if Iran have a match on September 5 or not they\u2019re going to be a very good team to play against,\u201d Paatelainen told the-afc. \u201cThat\u2019s a huge challenge. They\u2019re tall, they\u2019re powerful, they\u2019re quick, they\u2019re technical, they\u2019re tactically very good. They\u2019ve got everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not surprised they\u2019re the highest ranked Asian team in the FIFA rankings, but it\u2019s a different kind of challenge. I\u2019m a very positive person and I also want to turn that around,\u201d the Finn added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve got two different matches coming up and I think that\u2019s good because we can refresh the players\u2019 mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a totally different set up and a totally different mindset and opponent and I think that\u2019s good for the players\u2019 heads, to reboot the system and concentrate on the next challenge. Iran\u2019s a huge challenge but one we\u2019ll gain plenty of excellent experience from facing,\u201d Paatelainen concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; HONG KONG, Hong Kong head coach Mixu Paatelainen says that his team will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37411","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","category-world-cup"],"views":805,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411","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=37411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37413,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411\/revisions\/37413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}