{"id":11770,"date":"2011-01-02T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/02\/china-leave-it-late-against-iraq\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:42:43","slug":"china-leave-it-late-against-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/02\/china-leave-it-late-against-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"China leave it late against Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"iraq_champ_01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iraq_champ_01.jpg\" height=\"260\" width=\"385\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Deng Zhouxiang scored the winner as China defeated Iraq 3-2 in an  unofficial warm-up match ahead of the start of the AFC Asian Cup 2011  finals at Qatar Sports Club on Sunday evening. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deng\u2019s curling left-footed strike from the edge of the penalty  area came in the 73rd minute of an encounter that saw both Gao Hongbo  and Wolfgang Sidka \u2013 the coaches of China and Iraq respectively \u2013 make  numerous substitutions.<\/p>\n<p>Schalke midfielder Hao Junmin gave the  Chinese the lead after just eight minutes but two goals from Iraq  captain Younus Mahmood \u2013 in the 20th minute and on the stroke of  halftime \u2013 saw the Asian Cup holders go into the break in the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Their  advantage, however, did not last long as Zhao Peng, who had only been  introduced at halftime, headed home Hao\u2019s corner to pull the east Asian  champions level.<\/p>\n<p>Deng then completed China\u2019s comeback 17 minutes  from the end when he struck first time following Yu Hai\u2019s pass from the  left, giving Gao\u2019s team a morale boost ahead of their opening clash with  Kuwait on January 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Deng Zhouxiang scored the winner as China defeated Iraq 3-2 in an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2519,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","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=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}