{"id":35212,"date":"2019-01-25T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T03:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35212"},"modified":"2019-01-25T19:08:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T03:08:36","slug":"we-just-focus-on-japan-match-sardar-azmoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/25\/we-just-focus-on-japan-match-sardar-azmoun\/","title":{"rendered":"We just focus on Japan match: Sardar Azmoun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Iran national football team forward Sardar Azmoun says the match against China is finished and from now on they just focus on Japan contest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli defeated China 3-0 Thursday night to secure a place at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 24-year-old striker set up Mehdi Taremi for Iran\u2019s opener and then scored his third goal in the tournament after rounding the China goalkeeper in the first half. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will meet The Samurai Blue on Monday as Carlos Queiroz\u2019s team remain firmly in the hunt for silverware in the Asian Cup after 43 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are a united team in the UAE and work together to win our matches. In the first goal, I understood Taremi is unmarked and sent the ball to him. I will again pass the ball to each of my teammates who is in a much better position,\u201d Azmoun said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThanks to everyone who supported us so far and we have two more important matches. First, we focus on beating Japan and we know that how strong Japan. I hope we will defeat them and we need the help of our supporters,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, Iran national football team forward Sardar Azmoun says the match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1624,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35212","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=35212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35214,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35212\/revisions\/35214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}