{"id":37487,"date":"2019-09-11T19:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37487"},"modified":"2019-09-11T19:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:33:41","slug":"three-points-is-a-positive-result-marc-wilmots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/11\/three-points-is-a-positive-result-marc-wilmots\/","title":{"rendered":"Three points is a positive result: Marc Wilmots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; HONG KONG, <strong>Iran football team coach Marc Wilmots says they have become a better team in terms of attacking football.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sardar Azmoun and Karim Ansarifard were on target as Iran made a winning start to qualifying for the 2022 World Cup with a 2-0 win over Hong Kong in Group C on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe gained three points from this match, so I think it was a positive result,\u201d said coach Marc Wilmots, who was taking charge of his first competitive game for Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe encountered a wall of defense from the Hong Kong team but we were able to score two goals and had opportunities to score more.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have become a better team in term of attacking football but we need to improve in defense,\u201d Wilmots said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the beginning of our preparations and we will get better day-by-day,\u201d the Belgian coach concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; HONG KONG, Iran football team coach Marc Wilmots says they have become a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37487","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1741,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37487","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=37487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37489,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37487\/revisions\/37489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}