{"id":28764,"date":"2024-10-18T18:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=28764"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:12:59","slug":"sub-par-indonesia-beaten-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/10\/18\/sub-par-indonesia-beaten-by-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Par Indonesia Beaten by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China ended their three-match losing streak by securing a 2-1 victory over Indonesia in their 2026 FIFA World Cup AFC qualifiers third round Group C match at Qingdao Youth Football Stadium. The win revived China&#8217;s campaign, while it marked Indonesia&#8217;s first defeat after a series of impressive draws against stronger teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite being on the defensive in the opening stages, China took control midway through the first half. Indonesia initially looked more dangerous, with a seventh-minute header from Jay Idzes being comfortably saved by China goalkeeper Wang Dalei. Ragnar Oratmangoen also had a chance from distance but failed to convert.<\/p>\n<p>China broke the deadlock in the 21st minute when Behram Abduweli volleyed home from a Jiang Shenglong set-piece. Indonesia responded with efforts from Ivar Jenner and Calvin Verdonk, but China doubled their lead just before halftime. Zhang Yuning latched onto a precise pass from Gao Zhunyi, finishing with a composed strike into the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Indonesia showed urgency, creating several opportunities, including a near miss from Rizky Ridho. With a much more improved performance compared to a sub-par first half, Indonesia finally pulled a goal back in the 86th minute through substitute Thom Haye, but China held on for their first win of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China ended their three-match losing streak by securing a 2-1 victory over Indonesia in their 2026 FIFA World Cup AFC qualifiers third round Group C match at Qingdao Youth Football Stadium. The win revived China&#8217;s campaign, while it marked Indonesia&#8217;s first defeat after a series of impressive draws against stronger teams. Despite being on the defensive in the opening stages, China took control midway through the first half. Indonesia initially looked more dangerous, with a seventh-minute header from Jay Idzes being comfortably saved by China goalkeeper Wang Dalei. Ragnar Oratmangoen also had a chance from distance but failed to convert. China broke the deadlock in the 21st minute when Behram &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/10\/18\/sub-par-indonesia-beaten-by-china\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Sub-Par Indonesia Beaten by China&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":27067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,50],"tags":[926,154,2428,91,95,315,480],"class_list":["post-28764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-fifa-world-cup","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-east-asia","tag-indonesia","tag-slider","tag-southeast-asia","tag-world-cup-qualifiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28765,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764\/revisions\/28765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}