Malaysia coach\u00a0Nelo Vingada blamed the “lack of strikers” for his side’s 2-0 defeat against Hong Kong in 2019 Asian Cup qualifier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Tigers, down to 10-men after captain Safiq Rahim received a red card, were trashed 2-0 by the hosts Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what happens when we lack strikers, we had to leave two behind and then we had to play without any striker (after Darren Lok got injured).\u201d Harian Metro quoted head coach Nelo Vingada<\/a> as saying in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n \u201cIf did affect our game, even though we could have really made something work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s not an excuse, I hope this will teach us to be better prepared for the upcoming matches.\u201d<\/p>\n Malaysia are standing at the bottom of Group B, with just a point from the draw over Hong Kong at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malaysia coach\u00a0Nelo Vingada blamed the “lack of strikers” for his side’s 2-0 defeat against Hong Kong in 2019 Asian Cup qualifier on Tuesday. The Tigers, down to 10-men after captain Safiq Rahim received a red card, were trashed 2-0 by the hosts Hong Kong. \u201cThis is what happens when we lack strikers, we had to leave two behind and then we had to play without any striker (after Darren Lok got injured).\u201d Harian Metro quoted head coach Nelo Vingada as saying in the post-match press conference. \u201cIf did affect our game, even though we could have really made something work,\u201d he added. \u201cBut it\u2019s not an excuse, I hope this … Continue reading “Malaysia coach\u00a0Nelo Vingada blames the “lack of strikers” for Hong Kong defeat”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-7841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841","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=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}