{"id":24307,"date":"2016-02-11T22:12:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T06:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24307"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T06:12:57","slug":"afc-futsal-championship-2016-md2-iran-vs-china-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/afc-futsal-championship-2016-md2-iran-vs-china-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Championship 2016 MD2: Iran vs. China [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Iran coach Mohammad Nazemosharie warned his players that China could prove a difficult opponent as the 10-time champions look to book an early spot in the quarter-finals when they meet the East Asians in their second Group B tie on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A commanding 6-0 victory over Jordan in their opening match has put Team Melli in a strong position and a win at Universal Stadium against the Chinese, who lost their opener 6-1 to Iraq, could see Nazemosharie\u2019s side book their ticket to the knockout stage with a match to spare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the scoreline in that game represented China\u2019s quality but what was clear was that Iraq had prepared well and executed their game-plan efficiently,\u201d said Nazemosharie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well against Jordan, a team that we respect, and now face another difficult opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the heavy nature of the loss China have other concerns with one of their most influential players, Liang Shiming, being stretchered off the court in the loss to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect he\u2019s suffered a broken nose and we\u2019re not sure whether he will be available but we also now have to face the prospect of playing Asia\u2019s best team in a match we have to win,\u201d said China coach Shan Zhiping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know it will be difficult but we are preparing as best we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The day\u2019s other Group B clash pits Iraq against Jordan with the former also looking to potentially book a spot in the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, Iran coach Mohammad Nazemosharie warned his players that China could prove a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1724,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24307","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=24307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}