{"id":12240,"date":"2011-06-23T05:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/23\/second-leg-of-oly-round-two-on-june-23\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T05:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:04:56","slug":"second-leg-of-oly-round-two-on-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/23\/second-leg-of-oly-round-two-on-june-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Second leg of Oly round two on June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Team_Omid_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Team_Omid_2011.png\" height=\"249\" width=\"332\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The stage is set Thursday for the second leg of the London Olympics  qualifying second round which will witness 12 matches played around the  continent in the Asian campaign to grab three automatic places in the  games next year. Twenty-four teams clashed in the exciting first leg on  June 19. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qatar scored in the first leg with a 3-1 victory at home in a keenly  contested match against underdogs India who took a surprise lead in the  seventh minute before the West Asian powers equalised in the 14th,  scored another in the 54th minute and sealed the win in the 69th. Qatar  will travel to the Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium for the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>DPR  Korea were beaten 1-0 at home in the first round by the UAE with both  rivals fending each other off goalless in the first half, before  substitute Ali Ahmed Al Hajeri\u2019s strike four minutes from the hour mark  saw the West Asians go into the second leg with an edge. The UAE will  host the East Asians at the Al Qatara Stadium for the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>Oman  stunned China PR 1-0 in the first leg with a fourth-minute strike by  Hussain Al Hadhri with the rest of the proceedings dominated by the East  Asians which failed to find the net in front of a spirited Omani  defence until the final whistle was blown. The 2008 Olympic hosts will  visit Oman at Al Seeb Sports Stadium for the next leg.<\/p>\n<p>Asian  giants Japan outclassed Kuwait 3-1 in the first leg having dominated the  first half with two goals before scoring their comfortable third a  minute after the hour mark with the West Asians reducing the deficit six  minutes later. Takashi Sekizuka\u2019s charges will travel to Kuwait City  for the return leg on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes, however, will be on the  second-leg match between archrivals Iraq and <strong>Iran<\/strong> at the former\u2019s Azadi  Stadium <em>(20:00 local time)<\/em> after the first leg saw the 2004 Athens Games semifinalists  beaten by Iran 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 winners from the second round will advance to the third round whose draw is scheduled for July 7 at AFC House. <\/p>\n<p>The  12 teams will be divided into three groups of four teams each in the  third round and play on a home-and-away format from September 21, 2011,  to March 14, 2012, determining the winners who will represent the  continent in the Olympics. Three second-placed teams from the third  round will clash in a playoff at a centralised venue from March 25 to  29, 2012, and the winners of this group will meet the representatives of  CAF for a berth in the Olympics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The stage is set Thursday for the second leg of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3360,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}