{"id":11869,"date":"2011-01-20T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/20\/we-fear-no-one-proclaims-park\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:08:28","slug":"we-fear-no-one-proclaims-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/20\/we-fear-no-one-proclaims-park\/","title":{"rendered":"We fear no one, proclaims Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/players\/p\/park_ji_sung_300x200.jpg\" height=\"245\" width=\"368\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA &#8211; <strong>Korea Republic midfielder Park Ji-sung struck a defiant tone ahead  of the Taeguk Warriors\u2019 AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 quarter-final clash  with three-time champions Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Koreans finished second in Group C behind Australia on goal  difference to ensure the two nations meet for an astonishing fifth  straight time in the last eight of the continental championship.<\/p>\n<p>Each  nation has won two of their meetings in the quarter-finals while the  winner of the encounter has never gone on to reach the final, falling in  the semi-finals on each occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Park, though, is confident  enough in his own team\u2019s abilities to not be concerned who he and his  team mates face off against in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter for us who we meet in the quarter-finals and we\u2019ll try our best,\u201d said the Manchester United star. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran  is a strong team, one of the strongest teams in Asia, so it will be a  difficult game for each team. We know each other a lot so we have to  prepare well to play against Iran and then we\u2019ll try our best to win the  game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have come here to win the title and we don\u2019t fear anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Park\u2019s  tone was echoed by veteran left back Lee Young-pyo who, while  disappointed his side could not score more than the four goals they  managed against India, is upbeat about the impending meeting with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  tried to score as many as possible but we only managed four even though  we created a lot of chances and we had a lot of space,\u201d said the Al  Hilal defender. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cScoring only four goals is a little bit of a pity but we\u2019ve qualified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran  is a very strong team and that\u2019s good motivation for us. We have a lot  of experience playing against Iran and it won\u2019t be easy. But our squad  is good, we\u2019ve played fantastic football and we\u2019re never afraid of any  team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very slippery pitch but we were trying to do our  best and score as many goals as possible. We\u2019re in good shape. Our play  is the same from the first minute to the last, we are always pressing  and we dominated the game so we\u2019re very happy.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA &#8211; Korea Republic midfielder Park Ji-sung struck a defiant tone ahead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2106,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}