{"id":20508,"date":"2019-10-12T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=20508"},"modified":"2019-10-12T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T12:55:12","slug":"five-things-malaysia-learned-from-their-1-0-loss-to-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/10\/12\/five-things-malaysia-learned-from-their-1-0-loss-to-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things Malaysia Learned From Their 1-0 Loss to Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia have suffered their second loss in three games of World Cup Qualifying, with Vietnam&#8217;s Nguyen Quang Hai making the difference in a hard-fought game between the two 2018 AFF Cup finalists. This result leaves Malaysia sitting in fourth place, needing to turn things around. Football Tribe Malaysia&#8217;s <strong>Amin Anas<\/strong> gives us his thoughts on this result.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div id=\"tribe-slideshow-wrap-20509\" data-id=\"20509\"\n             class=\"slideshow slideshow_id_20509\">\n            <div class=\"tribe-slideshow\" id=\"slideshow20509\">\n                                <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n                                                <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/72217390_436862580521472_1414224832404389888_n-800x533.jpg\"\/>\n                                    <script>\n        var currentSite = 'asia';\n        var isMalaysiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var isIndonesiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var postId = '20508';\n    <\/script>\n                                    <div class=\"slideshow_text_content\">\n                                    <h3>Absence of Nor Azam Azih<\/h3>\n<p>The absence of Pahang\u2019s playmaker Nor Azam Azih due to injury had a huge impact on Malaysia. They failed to produce any convincing attack and could only provide two chances. The lack of creativity in the centre would be the main reason why Malaysia failed to repeat their great run like before.<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/72051577_455384641743315_4124943718438404096_n-800x530.jpg\"\/>\n                                    <script>\n        var currentSite = 'asia';\n        var isMalaysiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var isIndonesiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var postId = '20508';\n    <\/script>\n                                    <div class=\"slideshow_text_content\">\n                                    <h3><strong>Vietnam Attack Matthew Davies\u2019 Side<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously, Malaysia's opponents never attacked down the right side. Both UAE and Indonesia used their attacking players to go against Corbin Ong. Surprisingly, Vietnam\u2019s tactical is quite strange as they knew the weakness of Davies. As a result, they broke through from the right side and scored their only goal from Nguyen Quang Hai.<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/72860064_490562258197828_5100602778753957888_n-800x533.jpg\"\/>\n                                    <script>\n        var currentSite = 'asia';\n        var isMalaysiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var isIndonesiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var postId = '20508';\n    <\/script>\n                                    <div class=\"slideshow_text_content\">\n                                    <h3><strong>Another blunder by Shahrul Saad<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perak Center back Saad continued to repeat the same mistakes he made during the two previous matches. He was even booked for attempting to score using his hand last night. It is undeniable that he has the quality to be in the national squad. However, if he keeps making these kinds of mistakes, it could endanger Malaysia's hope of qualifying for the next round.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/72568746_656473208175268_5328020390839058432_n-800x530.jpg\"\/>\n                                    <script>\n        var currentSite = 'asia';\n        var isMalaysiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var isIndonesiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var postId = '20508';\n    <\/script>\n                                    <div class=\"slideshow_text_content\">\n                                    <h3><strong>The Relevancy of Veteran Players\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaysia should start to sort their current squad and open the opportunity for youngsters to be in the national team. Malaysia has a number of young talents. If Malaysian coach, Tan Cheng Hoe keeps on using the same squad with the same tactics, it could lead to more disappointment in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                        <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/72459128_632875033903402_3499704077661503488_n-800x418.jpg\"\/>\n                                    <script>\n        var currentSite = 'asia';\n        var isMalaysiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var isIndonesiaCampaign =\n            '';\n        var postId = '20508';\n    <\/script>\n                                    <div class=\"slideshow_text_content\">\n                                    <h3><strong>Quality of Malaysian Attacking Players<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaysia needs to admit that they do not have many options when it comes to attacking players. Malaysia can't just rely on naturalized players - they need to also produce local talents. Malaysian youngster, Luqman Hakim should be given a chance to play with the national squad for early exposure, which could benefit his development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                <div class=\"row\">\n                    <div class=\"col-lg-5 col-4\">\n                        <div class=\"swiper-button-prev\">\n                        <span class=\"fas fa-chevron-left\"\n                              aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"col-lg-2 col-4\">\n                        <div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"col-lg-5 col-4\">\n                        <div class=\"swiper-button-next\">\n                        <span class=\"fas fa-chevron-right\"\n                              aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"text-content\">\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia have suffered their second loss in three games of World Cup Qualifying, with Vietnam&#8217;s Nguyen Quang Hai making the difference in a hard-fought game between the two 2018 AFF Cup finalists. This result leaves Malaysia sitting in fourth place, needing to turn things around. Football Tribe Malaysia&#8217;s Amin Anas gives us his thoughts on this result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":20513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857,1636],"tags":[64,95,554],"class_list":["post-20508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","category-world-cup-qualifying","tag-malaysia","tag-slider","tag-world-cup-qualifying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508","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=20508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20536,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions\/20536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}