{"id":22882,"date":"2015-10-12T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22882"},"modified":"2015-10-12T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T17:02:34","slug":"iran-vs-japan-queiroz-and-hosts-relishing-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/10\/12\/iran-vs-japan-queiroz-and-hosts-relishing-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran vs. Japan: Queiroz and hosts relishing test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FourFourTwo &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Tuesday&#8217;s international friendly will see Iran host four-time Asian Cup champions Japan in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz is relishing the opportunity to test his players against Asian powerhouse Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz&#8217;s Iran and Japan will meet in an international friendly in Tehran on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly fixture comes after both teams played in scorching conditions in the Asian World Cup qualifying section.<\/p>\n<p>Iran contended with oppressive heat as they drew 1-1 draw in Muscat, Oman and Japan were 3-0 winners over Syria in the Omani capital.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz was happy with his young group of players post-match as they sit atop Group D ahead of a testing date against the likes of Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa and Yuto Nagatomo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything is going well with us, but we&#8217;re playing a very good team in Japan,&#8221; he said via FFIRI.ir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have international players who have played with Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan, so they have lots of quality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a good chance for our players to match up against those with international experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz encouraged fans to attend the game at Azadi Stadium, saying all of the team&#8217;s energy is focused on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we get 50,000 people in the stadium that will be a win for Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Japan will be looking for continued improvement after seeing off Syria in stifling Omani conditions.<\/p>\n<p>AC Milan playmaker Honda is expected to play, and will be hoping for a better performance up front after Japan squandered numerous chances against Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In attack we are not quite there yet,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking at the flow of the game against Syria we should have scored more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had plenty of chances to. We lacked power and precision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will be looking for a win ahead of the next round of qualifiers in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FourFourTwo &#8211; TEHRAN, Tuesday&#8217;s international friendly will see Iran host four-time Asian Cup champions Japan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":2759,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882","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=22882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}