{"id":6433,"date":"2017-08-26T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T08:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2017-08-26T17:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T08:48:48","slug":"thailand-u-22-striker-sittichok-kannoo-indonesia-better-team-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/26\/thailand-u-22-striker-sittichok-kannoo-indonesia-better-team-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand U-22 striker Sittichok Kannoo: Indonesia are a better team than Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand U-22 Sittichok Kannoo has been eager to face Indonesia in SEA Games final rather than hosts Malaysia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/sports\/football\/2017\/08\/272504\/sea-games-indonesian-football-team-much-better-malaysia-says-thai\">as reported by the New Straits Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Thai Honda Ladkrabang striker said that he was not interested in squaring off with Ong Kim Swee\u2019s squad, whom he deems are inferior to Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to meet Indonesia in the final because they are a better team than Malaysia,\u201d he told reporters ahead of the semi-final clash against Malaysia on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Malaysian backline is fragile. Their strikers are also ineffective, especially when facing stronger sides such as Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also beat Malaysia before (3-0) at the AFC Cup U-23 qualifiers in Bangkok, last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, even in the Sea Games group matches, you can see the porous nature of the Malaysian defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in stark contrast with Indonesia, who we think are the best Southeast Asian side at the moment. We\u2019ve met them twice at the AFC Cup qualifiers and in the Sea Games group matches; both ended in a tie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo my pick is Indonesia for us to meet in the final, provided we beat Myanmar later,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/25\/malaysia-u-22-coach-will-focus-super-efficient-tactics-beautiful-football\/\">Indonesia will progress their gold medal hunt\u00a0<\/a>at the semi-final showdown against old rivals Malaysia in Shah Alam Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand U-22 Sittichok Kannoo has been eager to face Indonesia in SEA Games final rather than hosts Malaysia, as reported by the New Straits Times. The Thai Honda Ladkrabang striker said that he was not interested in squaring off with Ong Kim Swee\u2019s squad, whom he deems are inferior to Indonesia. \u201cWe want to meet Indonesia in the final because they are a better team than Malaysia,\u201d he told reporters ahead of the semi-final clash against Malaysia on Saturday evening. \u201cThe Malaysian backline is fragile. Their strikers are also ineffective, especially when facing stronger sides such as Indonesia. \u201cWe also beat Malaysia before (3-0) at the AFC Cup U-23 qualifiers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/26\/thailand-u-22-striker-sittichok-kannoo-indonesia-better-team-malaysia\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Thailand U-22 striker Sittichok Kannoo: Indonesia are a better team than Malaysia&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","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=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}