{"id":6091,"date":"2021-06-02T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2021-06-02T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:24:11","slug":"nepal-expects-a-tough-match-against-chinese-taipei-head-coach-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/06\/02\/nepal-expects-a-tough-match-against-chinese-taipei-head-coach-abdullah\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal expects a tough match against Chinese Taipei: Head coach Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong>: Head coach Abdullah Almutairi said Nepal expects a tough match against Chinese Taipei when the two sides meet in the second round match of the World Cup Qualifier on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in the virtual pre-match conference on Wednesday, coach expected the match to be difficult for both the sides. &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy to play in Kuwait weather and it is going to be difficult for both of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdullah said we have plenty of positives to draw from the Iraq friendly despite the defeat and will go for the win against Chinese Taipei. &#8220;We want to secure fourth position for our chances in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers and for that we have to go for the win in the match tomorrow,&#8221; he said. He again demanded patience from a relatively young national squad. &#8220;We have not played a lot of friendlies to prepare. We have a young but talented squad of players and we should not be pushing much on them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We want to secure fourth position for our chances in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers and\u00a0for\u00a0that we have to go for the win in the match tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The coach was also wary of the opposition. &#8220;They have new players and the coach is taking charge of his first match.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese Taipei coach Vom Ca-nhum also reiterated about the hot weather condition in Kuwait. &#8220;We are having difficulties in adapting to the weather condition and our biggest challenge has been the weather.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about the Nepali team, coach Vom said Nepal has a balanced side and good in both defense and attack. &#8220;Our key players and overseas players could not join due to the Covid situation and I hope the new players can grasp this opportunity to prove themselves,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal takes on Chinese Taipei at the Jaber Al-Hamad International Stadium at 7 pm local time (9:45 pm NST). The team will face Jordan on June 7 before wrapping up with Australia on June 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Head coach Abdullah Almutairi said Nepal expects a tough match against Chinese Taipei when the two sides meet in the second round match of the World Cup Qualifier on Thursday. Speaking in the virtual pre-match conference on Wednesday, coach expected the match to be difficult for both the sides. &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Abdullah.jpg?fit=1280%2C792&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-1Af","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}