{"id":26018,"date":"2016-09-05T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26018"},"modified":"2016-09-05T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T23:19:37","slug":"china-vows-to-beat-iran-at-home-in-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/09\/05\/china-vows-to-beat-iran-at-home-in-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"China vows to beat Iran at home in World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CRI &#8211; SHENYANG, <strong>China coach Gao Hongbo on Monday expressed his confidence to beat Iran here on Tuesday in their second match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Asian Zone qualifiers&#8217; last round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last round witnesses 12 Asian teams vie for four-and-a-half berths. China were drawn into Group A with South Korea, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria and Qatar, while Group B has Australia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Thailand and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Through two round-robin, home-and-away matches, the top two of each group will qualify for the World Cup finals directly. The third-placed teams of each group will play a home-and-away series and the winner will advance to the intercontinental play-off against a team from CONCACAF.<\/p>\n<p>During the first game of the last round on Sept. 1, China lost to South Korea 3-2 in Seoul, and Iran beat Qatar 2-0 in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old Gao spoke highly of the Chinese fans in Seoul, saying, &#8220;The fans gave our players courage when we got into troubles in the first match against South Korea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gao told the pre-match press conference here that &#8220;To win the game is the only target to every coach, and that is the core value of my work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question about Wu Lei, the forward who wasted some chances in the first game against South Korea, Gao said, &#8220;There is few local forward in the first teams of the Chinese Super League. Wu is 26 years old. His maturity can help us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRI &#8211; SHENYANG, China coach Gao Hongbo on Monday expressed his confidence to beat Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1894,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018","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=26018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}