Malaysia U-22 head coach Ong Kim Swee will focus on the \u201csuper-efficient\u201d tactics rather than playing the beautiful football ahead of the SEA Games semi-final against Indonesia on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the reporters, the Malaysian coach believed football was about winning matches whether through relentless domination or through unimpressive methods, as long as the team collect three points or a title.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be drilling on tactics ahead of the semi-finals. We need a good strategy in order to make the final,\u201d Ong said, as quoted by The New Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI am confident the players will be mentally and tactically ready for Saturday\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did not play pretty football in the win over Laos (on Wednesday), but it is okay\u2026we didn\u2019t want to kill ourselves and did just enough to win.\u201d<\/p>\n Malaysia will face rivals Indonesia, who qualified for the group stage with a 2-0 win over Cambodia<\/a> on Thursday, in the semi-final showdown on Saturday at Shah Alam Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malaysia U-22 head coach Ong Kim Swee will focus on the \u201csuper-efficient\u201d tactics rather than playing the beautiful football ahead of the SEA Games semi-final against Indonesia on Saturday. Speaking to the reporters, the Malaysian coach believed football was about winning matches whether through relentless domination or through unimpressive methods, as long as the team collect three points or a title. \u201cWe will be drilling on tactics ahead of the semi-finals. We need a good strategy in order to make the final,\u201d Ong said, as quoted by The New Straits Times. \u201cI am confident the players will be mentally and tactically ready for Saturday\u2019s challenge. \u201cWe did not play pretty … Continue reading “Malaysia U-22 coach will focus on the \u201csuper-efficient\u201d tactics than beautiful football”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[64,215,69],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-malaysia","tag-ong-kim-swee","tag-sea-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","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=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}