{"id":6117,"date":"2017-08-16T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2017-08-16T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:11:12","slug":"ong-kim-swee-malaysia-must-continue-winning-momentum-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/16\/ong-kim-swee-malaysia-must-continue-winning-momentum-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Ong Kim Swee: Malaysia must continue their winning momentum against Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/15\/malaysia-u22-coach-looks-forward-meet-vietnam-semi-final\/\">Malaysia U-22<\/a> are looking for a positive result against rivals Singapore in the next group stage match at SEA Games men&#8217;s football.<\/p>\n<p>According to Malaysia head coach Ong Kim Swee, his side must continue their winning momentum against Singapore to remain on track for the gold, after struggling in earning three points from Brunei on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first match is always difficult. Against Brunei, we created a lot of chances but we couldn\u2019t convert them,\u201d Kim said, as quoted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/sport\/football\/2017\/08\/16\/kim-swee-lets-put-singapore-under-the-cosh\/\">The Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s going to get better as we go along. If we can take our chances well, then we will have no problems against Singapore,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kim and his players are likely to face an uphill battle as Singapore need a win to keep their semi-final hopes alive after disappointedly going down to Myanmar 2-0 in their opening game on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be out for blood. I have told my players to keep their temper in check. We have to be cautious and careful if they try to provoke us,\u201d Kim insisted they could not take their rivals for granted.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-Causeway showdown will take place at the Shah Alam Stadium on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia U-22 are looking for a positive result against rivals Singapore in the next group stage match at SEA Games men&#8217;s football. According to Malaysia head coach Ong Kim Swee, his side must continue their winning momentum against Singapore to remain on track for the gold, after struggling in earning three points from Brunei on Monday. \u201cThe first match is always difficult. Against Brunei, we created a lot of chances but we couldn\u2019t convert them,\u201d Kim said, as quoted by\u00a0The Star. \u201cBut it\u2019s going to get better as we go along. If we can take our chances well, then we will have no problems against Singapore,\u201d he added. However, Kim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/16\/ong-kim-swee-malaysia-must-continue-winning-momentum-singapore\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Ong Kim Swee: Malaysia must continue their winning momentum against Singapore&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,215,69,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117"}],"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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}