{"id":11550,"date":"2010-10-05T22:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/05\/open-game-expected-as-verslijen-targets-win\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T22:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:02:53","slug":"open-game-expected-as-verslijen-targets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/05\/open-game-expected-as-verslijen-targets-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Open game expected as Verslijen targets win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"IranU17_Kaveh_Rezaei\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IranU17_Kaveh_Rezaei.jpg\" height=\"313\" width=\"414\" \/>AFC &#8211; LINZI, <strong>Australia coach Jan Verslijen has underlined three points and a place in  the quarter-finals of the AFC U-19 Championship is the target when his  side take on Iran at Linzi Stadium on Wednesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Young Socceroos recovered from the shock of conceding an  early goal to beat Yemen 4-1 in their opening game in Group D and move  level with Korea Republic at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>It was an  impressive performance from Australia, confirming their pre-tournament  status as one of the favourites to lift the title, although Verslijen  (pictured) knows they will face a much stiffer test in the form of the  Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Doustimehr&#8217;s side, however, lost 2-0 to Korea  Republic and the Dutchman is keen for his men to push themselves to the  brink of a place in the last eight at the expense of their opponents  with Korea expected to see off Yemen in the group&#8217;s other game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw some patches of that game and I thought both teams played well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth  teams were well organised but the situation now is that we have three  points, so that means we have to win the game and that probably will  make it an open game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verslijen also hinted he may also tinker with his line-up with Utrecht midfielder Tommy Oar now available. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can be a change because Tommy Oar has just arrived in our hotel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Although  Iran were beaten by the Koreans, the game was much closer than the  score line suggests with only more clinical finishing from the East  Asians the real difference.<\/p>\n<p>Doustimehr, therefore, is looking for  a positive reaction from his team when they face Australia to keep  alive their hopes of a place in the quarter-finals from arguably the  competition&#8217;s toughest group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should try to change the attitude of the players and we should help them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  lost (against Korea) but football is a game of moments and a good coach  is a coach that can help his players during the hard times, so I think I  can help my players be better in the other games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia is a  very strong team but the Iranian people are people of a hard base, we  want to prove it against Australia and give the Iranian people a very  nice smile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; LINZI, Australia coach Jan Verslijen has underlined three points and a place in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2406,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}