A late penalty kick from Gao Lin retained China\u2019s slim hope of qualifying for 2018 World Cup as Marcello Lippi’s side beat Uzbekistan 1-0 at home on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been telling my players that, as long as there was a theoretical chance of qualifying that we should try our best,\u201d said Lippi in the post-match press conference, as quoted by Reuters.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt was already a miracle that we made it to the final 12 and we don\u2019t have any reason to give up. Today, we are happy. We won and we made our fans happy.\u201d<\/p>\n China will need to win over Qatar in Doha and rely on other results going their way if they are to snatch the third place in Group A with a play-off spot.<\/p>\n However, the former World Cup champion<\/a> told his side to forget about the other teams in the group and just ensure they win in Qatar, who tumbled to the bottom of the table with a 3-1 defeat to Syria.<\/p>\n “We need to concentrate on ourselves to improve in the following days, I have not compared with other teams,” Lippi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A late penalty kick from Gao Lin retained China\u2019s slim hope of qualifying for 2018 World Cup as Marcello Lippi’s side beat Uzbekistan 1-0 at home on Thursday. \u201cI\u2019ve been telling my players that, as long as there was a theoretical chance of qualifying that we should try our best,\u201d said Lippi in the post-match press conference, as quoted by Reuters. \u201cIt was already a miracle that we made it to the final 12 and we don\u2019t have any reason to give up. Today, we are happy. We won and we made our fans happy.\u201d China will need to win over Qatar in Doha and rely on other results going … Continue reading “China head coach Marcello Lippi: We don\u2019t have any reason to give up”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[637,154,797],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-china","tag-marcello-lippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620","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=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}