{"id":53634,"date":"2024-01-29T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/iraq-coach-warns-one-asian-cup-mistake-and-its-bye-bye-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T01:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:17:17","slug":"iraq-coach-warns-one-asian-cup-mistake-and-its-bye-bye-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/iraq-coach-warns-one-asian-cup-mistake-and-its-bye-bye-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq coach warns one Asian Cup mistake and it’s ‘bye bye’ | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jesus Casas warned his Iraq side they must be “perfect” against Jordan and pledged to go on the attack in their Asian Cup last-16 clash on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Along with hosts and holders Qatar<\/a>, and Iran<\/a>, Iraq were one of only three teams to reach the knockout rounds with a 100 percent record.<\/p>\n

That included defeating pre-tournament favourites Japan 2-1, raising hopes back home that Iraq can repeat their fairytale 2007 Asian Cup triumph.<\/p>\n

But their Spanish coach Casas on Sunday attempted to play down their title chances, starting against Jordan.<\/p>\n

“If we give a perfect match, it is possible to win. But if we make one mistake in this tournament, you say ‘bye bye’,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We are very happy with our tournament until now and I think the Iraqi people are very proud of the players and their performance,” added Casas, a former assistant to Luis Enrique in Spain’s national team.<\/p>\n

“But tomorrow we have a very, very, very hard match against a very, very good team.<\/p>\n

“In any match, all is possible — one red card, one penalty, one mistake, nervousness, so we aren’t favourites.”<\/p>\n

A Jordan victory would however be a shock.<\/p>\n

In contrast to Iraq’s three wins from three in the group stage, Jordan won one match and reached the knockout rounds as one of the four best third-placed sides.<\/p>\n

Casas is wary of Jordan’s attackers but won’t change his philosophy, his Iraq team having scored eight goals so far.<\/p>\n

“Our style is clear — we try to be offensive, have the ball under control, make a lot of chances,” said Casas.<\/p>\n

“We don’t change our style.”<\/p>\n

At the pre-match press conference, the 50-year-old was irked by a question about interviews he has given to Spanish media during the tournament, calling any criticism “a big stupid”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DOHA: Jesus Casas warned his Iraq side they must be “perfect” against Jordan and pledged to go on the attack in their Asian Cup last-16 clash on Monday. Along with hosts and holders Qatar, and Iran, Iraq were one of only three teams to reach the knockout rounds with a 100 percent record. That included […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/Iraq-Coach1706449572-0\/Iraq-Coach1706449572-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}