{"id":4464,"date":"2017-06-11T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2017-06-11T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T07:41:50","slug":"singapore-slump-asian-cup-qualifier-defeat-chinese-taipei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/11\/singapore-slump-asian-cup-qualifier-defeat-chinese-taipei\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore slump to Asian Cup qualifier defeat against Chinese Taipei"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singapore<\/a> suffered an embarrassing 2-1 defeat at home by Chinese Taipei in an Asian Cup Group E qualifier on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

The crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium were expecting to see the Lions secure a comfortable victory when Hariss Harun’s header past Chiu Yu-Hung into the top left corner in the sixth minute.<\/p>\n

However, the visitors equalized before half time by a stunning volley from Belgium-born Xavier Chen in the 30th minute.<\/p>\n

Despite having more possession, V.Sundramoorthy\u2019s side could not restrain the counter-attack playing from opponents.<\/p>\n

The victory was sealed for Chinese Taipei when Chen Chao-An headed into the empty net to pick up an unlikely three points for the team in the 60th minute.<\/p>\n

With this defeat, Singapore now have one point from two games in the qualifying campaign. The Lions will prepare themselves for a high-profile friendly against Argentina<\/a> on Tuesday before the next AFC Asian Cup qualifier against Turkmenistan on 5 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Singapore suffered an embarrassing 2-1 defeat at home by Chinese Taipei in an Asian Cup Group E qualifier on Saturday evening. The crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium were expecting to see the Lions secure a comfortable victory when Hariss Harun’s header past Chiu Yu-Hung into the top left corner in the sixth minute. However, the visitors equalized before half time by a stunning volley from Belgium-born Xavier Chen in the 30th minute. Despite having more possession, V.Sundramoorthy\u2019s side could not restrain the counter-attack playing from opponents. The victory was sealed for Chinese Taipei when Chen Chao-An headed into the empty net to pick up an unlikely three points for the … Continue reading “Singapore slump to Asian Cup qualifier defeat against Chinese Taipei”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,26],"tags":[302,218,416,192,108,95],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-sea","category-southeast-asia","tag-argentina","tag-chinese-taipei","tag-friendly","tag-hariss-harun","tag-singapore","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","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=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}