{"id":12875,"date":"2018-05-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=12875"},"modified":"2018-05-06T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T15:51:16","slug":"ricardo-goulart-expects-tough-clash-with-tianjin-quanjian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/05\/ricardo-goulart-expects-tough-clash-with-tianjin-quanjian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Goulart expects tough clash with Tianjin Quanjian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guangzhou Evergrande\u2019s striker Ricardo Goulart expects a tough clash with Tianjin Quanjian in the Round of 16 at <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/30\/al-ahli-calls-international-footballers-to-play-against-al-sadd-at-afc-champions-league\/\">AFC Champions League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always expect a difficult match,\u201d he told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/goulart-expects-tough-battle-from-title-contenders-tianjin\">the-AFC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are two different competitions, (and) sometimes the team focuses on one competition and leaves aside the other. Regardless of their form at the moment, it will be two difficult matches and we have to be at our best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know Tianjin Quanjian very well, we\u2019ve already played against them before (in China). They have a strong team, they invested a lot in it and certainly they will fight for all the titles with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be good to play against them. To become the champions we need to play against the strongest teams, so it will be nice. I hope it will be two great matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two-time AFC Champions League winners will take on the away game against Tianjin Quanjian\u00a0on May 8, while the second-legged game will take place a week later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guangzhou Evergrande\u2019s striker Ricardo Goulart expects a tough clash with Tianjin Quanjian in the Round of 16 at AFC Champions League. \u201cWe always expect a difficult match,\u201d he told the-AFC.com. \u201cThese are two different competitions, (and) sometimes the team focuses on one competition and leaves aside the other. Regardless of their form at the moment, it will be two difficult matches and we have to be at our best. \u201cWe know Tianjin Quanjian very well, we\u2019ve already played against them before (in China). They have a strong team, they invested a lot in it and certainly they will fight for all the titles with us. \u201cIt will be good to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/05\/ricardo-goulart-expects-tough-clash-with-tianjin-quanjian\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Ricardo Goulart expects tough clash with Tianjin Quanjian&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,34],"tags":[1035,112,1412,99],"class_list":["post-12875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-champions-league","category-china","tag-2018-afc-champions-league","tag-guangzhou-evergrande","tag-ricardo-goulart","tag-tianjin-quanjian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}