{"id":14972,"date":"2013-06-03T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2013-06-05T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T18:50:43","slug":"soria-suspended-for-crucial-qatar-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/06\/03\/soria-suspended-for-crucial-qatar-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Soria suspended for crucial Qatar clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Coach Fahad Thani will be without striker Sebastian Soria as Qatar seek to remain in the qualification picture in Group A with victory over Iran in Tuesday\u2019s final round 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soria (pictured) is suspended as Qatar, who are currently level on points with third place Iran having played a game more after suffering a heartbreaking 2-1 defeat by Korea Republic in March, look to make full use of home advantage for the last time in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Thani, though, does welcome back defender Mohammed Kasola from suspension with Qatar set to end their final round campaign against Uzbekistan in Tashkent later this<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.worldcupblog.org\/www.worldcupblog.org\/files\/2011\/01\/Sebastian-Soria.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" \/> month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe match against Iran will be very hard for the two teams as they are both looking for a victory in order to strengthen their position in the group. Iran have a good chance to qualify to the World Cup but I believe we will give them a hard time,\u201d said Thani, who saw his side draw 1-1 with Azerbaijan in a friendly last week following a recent 3-1 win over Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have prepared very well and the players are ready after a good season. We respect our opponents because they are a good team, but I believe that we will give our best in order to get a good result.\u201d<br \/>\nWith just two automatic qualification places available, Iran are currently three points adrift of second place Korea who face Lebanon in Beirut on Tuesday after losing 1-0 to Uzbekistan at home in November.<\/p>\n<p>But Carlos Queiroz\u2019s side, who arrived in Doha on Sunday, will look to make full use of their game in hand to close the four point gap on current Group A leaders Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have prepared well for the match against Qatar as we had a good training camp in Dubai and we are ready for the match. We have a complete squad and hopefully this will help us to get a good result,\u201d said Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have three matches left and we are concentrating in order to qualify to the World Cup. I\u2019m confident that the players can have a good performance and get a good result which will help us to qualify for Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following their trip to Doha, Iran entertain Lebanon next week before rounding off the final round campaign in Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hcITnG5rORI\/TmBq1h_l7mI\/AAAAAAAABO8\/fc0rsQW6aww\/s1600\/Sebastian+Soria+2.jpg\" width=\"652\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Coach Fahad Thani will be without striker Sebastian Soria as Qatar seek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":5226,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}