Thailand head coach Milovan Rajevac couldn’t get off to a favorable start to his reign as The War Elephants suffered a 2-0 defeat by host Uzbekistan in the friendly game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first half with hardly any significant chance, Rajevac\u2019s side conceded two goals by substitute Abdukholikov Temurkhuja in the 68th minute before Rashidov Sador\u00a0scored another one in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the press after the match, Rajevac expressed his disappointment about the team\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for us. We just started building a new team. Many Muang Thong players couldn\u2019t be here and two players from Chiangrai didn\u2019t train with us because they had matches in their leagues,\u201d Rajevac said, as quoted by The Nation. \u201cOur primary target is to build the new team for the future, for the next World Cup qualification campaign. We want to improve the level of standard of the national team,\u201d said Rajevac.<\/p>\n The War Elephants<\/a> are scheduled to face the United Arab Emirates in a 2018 World Cup qualifier in Bangkok on June 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thailand head coach Milovan Rajevac couldn’t get off to a favorable start to his reign as The War Elephants suffered a 2-0 defeat by host Uzbekistan in the friendly game on Tuesday. After a scoreless first half with hardly any significant chance, Rajevac\u2019s side conceded two goals by substitute Abdukholikov Temurkhuja in the 68th minute before Rashidov Sador\u00a0scored another one in stoppage time. Speaking to the press after the match, Rajevac expressed his disappointment about the team\u2019s performance. \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for us. We just started building a new team. Many Muang Thong players couldn\u2019t be here and two players from Chiangrai didn\u2019t train with us because they had matches … Continue reading “Thailand suffer a 2-0 defeat to Uzbekistan in friendly”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,38,1],"tags":[637,204,416,684,68,882],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southeast-asia","category-thailand","category-uncategorized","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-featured","tag-friendly","tag-milovan-rajevac","tag-thailand","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDespite the unfavorable result, Rajevac still keeps his hope of a better performance from his team during this experimenting process.<\/p>\n