{"id":418540,"date":"2026-06-27T04:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=418540"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:44:41","slug":"saudi-arabias-failure-to-create-chances-sealed-fate-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/saudi-arabias-failure-to-create-chances-sealed-fate-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s failure to create chances sealed fate, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HOUSTON, June 26 : Saudi Arabia&#8217;s inability to hold the ball and create attacking chances doomed the team in a goalless draw with Cape Verde at Houston Stadium on Friday in their final World Cup Group H match, coach Georgios Donis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 &#8220;We were very poor in creating actions. One cannot win a game this way,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 He added that Saudi Arabia had problems putting pressure on Cape Verde&#8217;s backline aside from a short period of time in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 &#8220;Our line of attack was not doing well. Our greatest problem today was creation and this was self evident.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Donis praised his players, saying the World Cup journey was a good experience but he would need to reassess the performance down the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 &#8220;It was not what we wanted because when playing in such a match against a team more or less the same level of us our level was not good. This gives cause for concern,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 &#8220;The journey was good and I would like to thank the players.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, June 26 : Saudi Arabia&#8217;s inability to hold the ball and create attacking chances doomed the team in a goalless draw with Cape Verde at Houston Stadium on Friday in their final World Cup Group H match, coach Georgios Donis said. \u2022 &#8220;We were very poor in creating actions. One cannot win a game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418541,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418540\/revisions\/418541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}