{"id":12397,"date":"2011-09-06T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/06\/asian-world-cup-qualifier-matchday-2-roundup\/"},"modified":"2011-09-06T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:02:23","slug":"asian-world-cup-qualifier-matchday-2-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/06\/asian-world-cup-qualifier-matchday-2-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian World Cup qualifiers matchday 2 roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"wc2014_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wc2014_logo.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"307\" \/>PFDC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Australia remained one of two teams with a perfect record after the second matchday of Asian World Cup qualification round 3. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Socceroos&#8221; defeated Frank Rijkaard&#8217;s Saudi Arabia 3-1 in the Persian Gulf country thanks to a brace from Joshua Kennedy and Luke Wilkshire&#8217;s penalty kick. <\/p>\n<p>Nasser Al Shamrani had scored the 1-2 for the Saudis\u00a0 converting the rebound of his own saved penalty kick.<\/p>\n<p>With one point collected, the Green Falcons stand in second position of their group with one point ahead of Oman who surprisingly lost 0-3 in Bangkok to Winfried Sch\u00e4fer&#8217;s Thailand. <\/p>\n<p> The second team with two wins so far are dark horses Jordan, who downed top seed China 2-1 at home, whereas Iraq expectedly  defeated Singapore 2-0 thanks to goals from Abdul Zahra and skipper  Younis Mahmoud.<\/p>\n<p>Like Iran, Japan and South Korea had to settle with away draws against respectable opposition. Shinji Okasaki canceled out Sever Djeparov&#8217;s 1-0 for Uzbekistan, while Korea failed to hold on to a one-goal lead against Kuwait. Again, Park Chu-Young from Arsenal had scored for the Koreans.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea narrowly defeated minnows Tajikistan 1-0, while Lebanon surprisingly downed the once mighty and now pointless UAE 3-1 in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>The further matches will be played on October 11, November 11, November 15 and February 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Australia remained one of two teams with a perfect record after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4545,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397","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=12397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}