{"id":43823,"date":"2021-10-09T07:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43823"},"modified":"2021-10-09T07:32:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:32:22","slug":"match-against-iran-not-decisive-paulo-bento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/09\/match-against-iran-not-decisive-paulo-bento\/","title":{"rendered":"Match against Iran not decisive: Paulo Bento"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>South Korea head coach Paulo Bento said the match against Iran in the 2022 World Cup qualification is not a decisive match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taegeuk Warriors are scheduled to meet Team Melli on Tuesday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea has never beaten Iran in Tehran, with two draws and five losses so far, Yonhap news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With his team looking to end that drought, Bento acknowledged it will be \u201ca different game than the last three games for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at the same time, Bento also tried to deflect the pressure away from his players, saying, \u201cThe game that we&#8217;re going to play on Tuesday isn&#8217;t more important than the games we&#8217;ve played.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not a decisive game. It&#8217;s just one more game,\u201d Bento said in his postmatch press conference at Ansan Wa Stadium in Ansan, 40 kilometers south of Seoul. \u201cIt&#8217;ll be a tough game and a very good challenge for us. But I am sure it will be a tough game for them as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bento balked at the notion South Korea should just try to settle for a draw against Iran in the difficult away match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA draw is just how the game starts. We should play and fight to reach three points,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom the beginning, we&#8217;re not going to play to draw the match. We&#8217;re going to play to win the match.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, South Korea head coach Paulo Bento said the match against Iran in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43823","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":2245,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823","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=43823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43825,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43823\/revisions\/43825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}