{"id":134418,"date":"2011-10-11T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=134418"},"modified":"2011-10-11T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:03:37","slug":"we-have-to-respect-this-team-but-i-am-confident-we-will-defeat-armenia-irish-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/11\/we-have-to-respect-this-team-but-i-am-confident-we-will-defeat-armenia-irish-coach.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Have to Respect This Team, But I am Confident&#8217; We will Defeat Armenia: Irish Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manager of the Republic of Ireland national team Giovanni Trapattoni has expressed confidence that his battle-hardened charges can see off their younger Armenian opponents in today&#8217;s Euro 2012 decisive qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to respect this team, but I am confident,&#8221; said the 72-year-old coach at a press conference Monday, reports the Dublin-based <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/soccer\/trapattoni-backs-charges-to-make-point-with-italianrsquos-job-in-balance-2901524.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Independent<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. &#8220;If we show maturity, we can get the result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Robbie Keane ruled out of the game and a doubt for next month if Ireland progress, Trapattoni has opted for Simon Cox as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The West Brom striker is preferred ahead of his clubmate Shane Long because he is better suited to Keane&#8217;s normal role in the Italian&#8217;s rigid 4-4-2 system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only the result of the game will show if it&#8217;s the right choice,&#8221; said Trapattoni. &#8220;Cox can drop back to support the midfield. Long will be very important in the second half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manager of the Republic of Ireland national team Giovanni Trapattoni has expressed confidence that his battle-hardened charges can&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,10550,33300,10549,33301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}