{"id":27617,"date":"2017-03-27T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27617"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:57:46","slug":"russia-2018-asian-quualififers-iran-vs-china-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/27\/russia-2018-asian-quualififers-iran-vs-china-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia 2018 Asian Qualifiers: Iran vs. China [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Group A leaders Islamic Republic of Iran will move a step closer to the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 should they see off China at Azadi Stadium on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taremi scored the only goal of the game as unbeaten Iran secured a 1-0 win over Qatar in Doha on Thursday to open up a four-point lead over second-placed Korea Republic. A second win on the bounce would leave Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men within touching distance of automatic qualification.<\/p>\n<p>China, though, kept their FIFA World Cup dream alive as Yu Dabao\u2019s solitary goal claimed a shocking 1-0 victory against Korea Republic to give Marcelo Lippi\u2019s team their first victory in Group A. Four points shy of third-placed Uzbekistan with four games to play, China need more wins on the board if they are to mount a realistic World Cup push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Group A leaders Islamic Republic of Iran will move a step closer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":10252,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617","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=27617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}