Thailand U-23 coach\u00a0Zoran Jankovic believed his side could earn a victory against North Korea in the opening match of 2018 AFC U-23 Championship in China on 10 January.<\/p>\n
“We played them in the warm-up tournament in Buriram last month and lost,” Jankovic said, as quoted by the Bangkok Post.<\/a><\/p>\n “But we made a lot of changes in that game after the Japan match. I think if we had used all of our first-team players we could have beaten them.<\/p>\n “It will be a tough game but we are better prepared now.”<\/p>\n Thailand\u00a0U-23 have been drawn in Group B along with defending champions Japan, North Korea, and Palestine.<\/p>\n The team will be training at Jinshan Sports Centre until Saturday and will have the final test against Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thailand U-23 coach\u00a0Zoran Jankovic believed his side could earn a victory against North Korea in the opening match of 2018 AFC U-23 Championship in China on 10 January. “We played them in the warm-up tournament in Buriram last month and lost,” Jankovic said, as quoted by the Bangkok Post. “But we made a lot of changes in that game after the Japan match. I think if we had used all of our first-team players we could have beaten them. “It will be a tough game but we are better prepared now.” Thailand\u00a0U-23 have been drawn in Group B along with defending champions Japan, North Korea, and Palestine. The team will … Continue reading “Thailand U-23 coach confident ahead of North Korea match”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[692,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}