Malaysia head coach Nelo Vingada hopes for a victory over North Korea tonight after his side experienced a\u00a0winless run\u00a0to eight\u00a0matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough, it is our fourth match in the group, we still have a chance to fight for the second spot behind Lebanon, who are near certain to qualify, for an automatic berth,\u201d said Vingada in the pre-match press conference on Thursday, as quoted by the New Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMy players are ready…I have done all I can and now it is up to them to fight hard for the three points.<\/p>\n Malaysia are currently sitting bottom of Group B with only one point from three matches. Moreover, the Harimau have not won in their last eight international matches since the 3-2 victory over Cambodia in November last year at the AFF Cup.<\/p>\n In this qualifier at i-Mobile Stadium tonight, Vingada appoints centre back\u00a0Fadhli Shas as the captain to replace Safiq Rahim, who is suspended for a match.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malaysia head coach Nelo Vingada hopes for a victory over North Korea tonight after his side experienced a\u00a0winless run\u00a0to eight\u00a0matches. \u201cAlthough, it is our fourth match in the group, we still have a chance to fight for the second spot behind Lebanon, who are near certain to qualify, for an automatic berth,\u201d said Vingada in the pre-match press conference on Thursday, as quoted by the New Straits Times. \u201cMy players are ready…I have done all I can and now it is up to them to fight hard for the three points. Malaysia are currently sitting bottom of Group B with only one point from three matches. Moreover, the Harimau have … Continue reading “Malaysia coach Vingada hopes for a victory over North Korea”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[219,64,1039,446],"class_list":["post-8649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-afc-asian-cup-qualification","tag-malaysia","tag-nelo-vingada","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649","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=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}