Buriram United coach\u00a0Bozidar Bandovic thanks his team for not giving up until the last minute of the AFC Champions League (ACL) Group G against two-time champions Guangzhou Evergrande.<\/p>\n
A last-minute strike by Yoo Jun-Sun earned Buriram United a 1-1 home draw<\/a> with\u00a0Evergrande in the penultimate match of Group G with Evergrande last night.<\/p>\n The draw keeps Buriram’s hopes of progressing to the knockout stage of the continental club championship for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n In the post-match press conference, coach Bandovic expressed his gratitude to the\u00a0sacrificing spirit of his players.<\/p>\n “In the second half, we have to make some changes to the squad. But I want to say thank you for my team. They never gave up until the last minute. Don’t forget we had to play three games in a week and had two days to take a rest before this game,” the 48-year-old coach said.<\/p>\n “This is not an easy game. It is valuable that we can keep a point,” he added.<\/p>\n In the final game of the group stage, Buriram must win their away game against Jeju on April 17 and hope Cerezo cannot earn a victory over Guangzhou in China.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Buriram United coach\u00a0Bozidar Bandovic thanks his team for not giving up until the last minute of the AFC Champions League (ACL) Group G against two-time champions Guangzhou Evergrande. A last-minute strike by Yoo Jun-Sun earned Buriram United a 1-1 home draw with\u00a0Evergrande in the penultimate match of Group G with Evergrande last night. The draw keeps Buriram’s hopes of progressing to the knockout stage of the continental club championship for the first time since 2013. In the post-match press conference, coach Bandovic expressed his gratitude to the\u00a0sacrificing spirit of his players. “In the second half, we have to make some changes to the squad. But I want to say thank … Continue reading “Buriram United coach\u00a0Bozidar Bandovic thanks his team for not giving up until the last minute”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,38],"tags":[1035,1392,220,112],"class_list":["post-12125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-champions-league","category-thailand","tag-2018-afc-champions-league","tag-bozidar-bandovic","tag-buriram-united","tag-guangzhou-evergrande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=12125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}