{"id":20160,"date":"2015-01-12T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20160"},"modified":"2015-01-12T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:10:06","slug":"there-is-no-easy-game-in-the-asia-cup-teymourian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/12\/there-is-no-easy-game-in-the-asia-cup-teymourian\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There is no easy game in the Asian Cup.&#8221; &#8211; Teymourian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; Sydney, <strong>Team Melli Defensive-midfielder Andranik Teymourian expresses his delight at the positive start for Iran and dismisses any claims that the tournament is easy. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran international midfielder Andranik Teymourian believes that there is no easy game in major tournaments like Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a good win against Bahrain but we\u2019re just at the beginning of the road. The first match is so important and I\u2019m happy we won the game. Bahrain is a good strong team especially in defense but Carlos Queiroz knew how we can beat them,\u201d Teymourian said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1_Iran-soccer-3-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"1_Iran soccer (3)\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1_Iran-soccer-3-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1_Iran-soccer-3-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1_Iran-soccer-3-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1_Iran-soccer-3.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UAE thrashed Qatar 4-1 in the Group C match but Teymourian believes that even with this result the next game for Iran against Qatar is not an easy one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t any easy game in Asian Cup so even with this heavy defeat against the UAE we will not consider Qatar as an underdog. I hope we qualify as group winner to avoid facing Japan in the next round,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main goal is to win the Asian Cup after 39 years to make Iranian fans happy but it\u2019s so early to talk about winning the tournament. Let us focus on our next match against Qatar,\u201d Teymourian stated.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s both goals against Bahrain were assisted by Teymourian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; Sydney, Team Melli Defensive-midfielder Andranik Teymourian expresses his delight at the positive start&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3693,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}