Malaysia and Thailand claimed the chances to win SEA Games football gold medal were equal for both teams.<\/p>\n
The hosts and the defending champions will square off in the men\u2019s final <\/a>at the Shah Alam Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cThailand always field a good team, be it an age-group side or their senior squad. They are always favourites,\u201d said Kim Swee at the pre-match press conference on the previous day, as quoted by The Star.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBut for this final, I believe there are no favourites. We are playing at home and we want to achieve the best result possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Thailand team assistant coach Naruephon Kaenson, who represented head coach Worrawoot Srimaka at the press conference, believed that there was no outright favourite for the crown.<\/p>\n \u201cOur players are injury-free and we are confident we can do well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Malaysia have lost to Thailand in every one of their last three encounters, most recently a 3-0 defeat in the AFC Under-23 qualifiers in Bangkok in July.<\/p>\n However, this time the Ong Kim Swee’s side will have a slight advantage with the backing of the 80,000-capacity crowd at the stadium, and millions more at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malaysia and Thailand claimed the chances to win SEA Games football gold medal were equal for both teams. The hosts and the defending champions will square off in the men\u2019s final at the Shah Alam Stadium on Tuesday. \u201cThailand always field a good team, be it an age-group side or their senior squad. They are always favourites,\u201d said Kim Swee at the pre-match press conference on the previous day, as quoted by The Star. \u201cBut for this final, I believe there are no favourites. We are playing at home and we want to achieve the best result possible.\u201d Meanwhile, Thailand team assistant coach Naruephon Kaenson, who represented head coach Worrawoot … Continue reading “Thailand and Malaysia coaches: Chance to win gold medal are equal for both team”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857,38],"tags":[64,69,68],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","category-thailand","tag-malaysia","tag-sea-games","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","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=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}