{"id":99044,"date":"2026-11-12T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T09:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99044"},"modified":"2026-11-12T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T09:17:59","slug":"we-need-to-be-exposed-gavin-lees-lions-welcome-brazil-paraguay-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99044","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need to be exposed\u2019: Gavin Lee&#8217;s Lions welcome Brazil, Paraguay challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><h2><span>\u201cBEST POSSIBLE VERSION\u201d FOR ASIAN CUP<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>The upcoming friendlies against South American opposition also form part of Singapore&#8217;s preparations for the 2027 Asian Cup, for which the Lions qualified on merit for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The tournament was due to be held in January, but has since been <\/span><span>postponed to December next year <\/span><span>because of security concerns in host nation Saudi Arabia, giving Singapore an additional 11 months to prepare.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>But Lee said the extra time would count for little unless the team used it to become \u201cthe best possible version\u201d of itself before the continental tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u201cThe main question is what we&#8217;re going to do with that time. It is on us to respond well to really make sure we use the time wisely,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Lions are in <\/span><span>Group D<\/span><span> of the Asian Cup, with Australia, Tajikistan and Iraq their opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/singapore-lions-brazil-paraguay-football-matches-6545346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBEST POSSIBLE VERSION\u201d FOR ASIAN CUP The upcoming friendlies against South American opposition also form part of Singapore&#8217;s preparations for the 2027 Asian Cup, for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14124,250,16674,9818,6738,2025,9947],"class_list":["post-99044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-brazil","tag-challenge","tag-exposed","tag-gavin","tag-lees","tag-lions","tag-paraguay","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}