{"id":3832,"date":"2023-09-25T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2023-09-25T20:14:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:14:59","slug":"pointless-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2023\/09\/25\/pointless-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Pointless Draw?<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (September 7<sup>th<\/sup> 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stalemate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always Wales\u2019 fans were in fine voice. It was one of the few positives of a dire night that failed to deliver. With both sides needing a morale-boosting win, despite Rob Page\u2019s wish that the match was not taking place \u2013 it was arranged by UEFA \u2013 neither team could manage to score in a pretty drab 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Substitute Kiefer Moore, who is suspended for next week\u2019s vital match against Latvia in Riga, came closest to breaking the deadlock when his header from Chris Mepham\u2019s cross hit the post and the rebound went off Ramsay and out of danger. With goalmouth action at a premium, newly appointed Spurs skipper, Son Heung-min, went closest twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strange<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was an odd fixture as friendlies go as neither would have chosen it. South Korea recently appointed former Germany and USA coach, J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann. He made it clear that next year\u2019s Asian Cup and qualification for the World Cup in North America is his priority \u2013 that requires Asian opposition or at least opponents who play a similar style of football. How does Wales fit that need?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Wales need to avoid any unpleasant surprise injuries and play European opponents. Given the precarious nature of qualification they need opponents who play a similar style to other teams in their Euro2024 group. Neither coach got much from the match, but Page at least saw Harry Wilson draw a parry from South Korean keeper Seungngyu Kim, after being put through by Nathan Broadhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron Ramsey made an unexpected appearance from the bench and Wales emerged unscathed for the return match against Latvia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (September 7th 2023) Stalemate As always Wales\u2019 fans were in fine voice. It was one of the few positives of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,14],"tags":[502,484,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}