{"id":11766,"date":"2011-01-01T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/01\/qatar-lose-to-dprk-in-final-tune-up\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:21:24","slug":"qatar-lose-to-dprk-in-final-tune-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/01\/qatar-lose-to-dprk-in-final-tune-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar lose to DPRK in final tune-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Nordkoreacoach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nordkoreacoach.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"369\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA,\u00a0 <strong>Substitute Ryang Yong Gi struck a second half penalty to earn DPR  Korea a 1-0 win in an AFC Asian Cup warm-up clash against hosts Qatar at  Khalifa Stadium on Friday evening. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Vegalta Sendai midfielder successfully converted from the spot in  the 70th minute to give Jo Tong Sop\u2019s team victory over a Qatar side  that were playing their final warm-up match before kicking off the  continental championship.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar will open the AFC Asian Cup against Uzbekistan on January 7 and  coach Bruno Metsu will be hoping for an improved performance from his  team when they take on the Central Asian side.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team created many openings in a slow paced game, although An  Chol Hyok caused concern in the Qatar defence with an attempt at  full-stretch, but goalkeeper Qasem Burahan blocked the shot.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Quaye tried his luck for the Qataris from 30 yards in the  28th minute but his right-footed drive was off target while two minutes  later the Koreans should have scored, only for captain Hong Yong Jo to  pull his shot across the face of goal with only Burahan to beat.<\/p>\n<p>Quaye presented one of the few threats to the DPR Korean defence with  his long range shooting and he tried his luck again in the second half,  but once more his effort was off target.<\/p>\n<p>DPR Korea finally broke the deadlock with 20 minutes to go as Ryang  converted from the spot to give Jong\u2019s side the perfect boost as they  enter the final phase of their preparations for the finals, which kick  off against the United Arab Emirates on January 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA,\u00a0 Substitute Ryang Yong Gi struck a second half penalty to earn DPR&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2791,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766","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=11766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}