{"id":13657,"date":"2018-06-02T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2018-06-03T09:12:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:12:48","slug":"wu-lei-scores-a-brace-as-china-beat-thailand-in-a-heavy-downpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/02\/wu-lei-scores-a-brace-as-china-beat-thailand-in-a-heavy-downpour\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Lei scores a brace as China beat Thailand in a heavy downpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brace of\u00a0Wu Lei earned a 2-0 win for China in an <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/29\/thailand-coach-milovan-rajevac-we-can-beat-higher-ranking-team-like-china\/\">international friendly<\/a> against Thailand\u00a0the Rajamangala National Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Wu Lei put China up-front first with his attempt in the 34th minute from the assist of\u00a0Zhi Xiao.<\/p>\n<p>However, just before the halftime, both side had to endure a 30-minute wait for the second half to start as a heavy downpour made the pitch unplayable.<\/p>\n<p>Chanathip Songkrasin had glimpses at goal in the second half but he failed to capitalize on his two attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Marcello Lippi\u2019s side proved more accurate in their scoring attempts. Their efforts were paid off\u00a0in the 74th minute when Wu Lei\u00a0found the net by a brilliant free-kick.<\/p>\n<p>This is a warm-up for both teams as they are preparing for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>While Thailand have been\u00a0drawn in Group A alongside hosts the United Arab Emirates, India and Bahrain, China have to compete for a lot in the knock-out stage with opponents in Group C, including title favorites Korea Republic, Kyrgyz Republic and the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brace of\u00a0Wu Lei earned a 2-0 win for China in an international friendly against Thailand\u00a0the Rajamangala National Stadium on Saturday. Wu Lei put China up-front first with his attempt in the 34th minute from the assist of\u00a0Zhi Xiao. However, just before the halftime, both side had to endure a 30-minute wait for the second half to start as a heavy downpour made the pitch unplayable. Chanathip Songkrasin had glimpses at goal in the second half but he failed to capitalize on his two attempts. Meanwhile, the Marcello Lippi\u2019s side proved more accurate in their scoring attempts. Their efforts were paid off\u00a0in the 74th minute when Wu Lei\u00a0found the net &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/02\/wu-lei-scores-a-brace-as-china-beat-thailand-in-a-heavy-downpour\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Wu Lei scores a brace as China beat Thailand in a heavy downpour&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,38],"tags":[154,739,68,1077],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-thailand","tag-china","tag-international-friendly","tag-thailand","tag-wu-lei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657","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=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}