{"id":11522,"date":"2010-09-26T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/26\/bahrain-comeback-in-waff\/"},"modified":"2010-09-26T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T03:06:34","slug":"bahrain-comeback-in-waff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/26\/bahrain-comeback-in-waff\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain comeback in WAFF 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skysports.com\/09\/09\/218x298\/Abdullatif_2358246.jpg\" height=\"280\" width=\"251\" \/>PFDC &#8211; AMMAN, <strong>Bahrain came back from the 0-3 defeat to Iran in the opening game and managed to down Oman 2-0 in their second and final group match of the 2010 WAFF Championship on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two second half goals by striker Ismael Abdullatif were enough to keep Bahrain&#8217;s hopes of qualifying for the semifinals as best runner-up alive and to put Oman under pressure to beat Iran on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Sunday, Kuwait started their campaign with a 2-1 victory over Syria, who are now out of the competition. Hosts Jordan, after their 1-1 draw against Syria on Friday, now need to defeat Kuwait on Tuesday to avoid elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Nine teams, divided into three groups of as many teams, started to compete for the 2010 WAFF Championship. The three group winners as well as the best runner-up will qualify for the semifinal stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; AMMAN, Bahrain came back from the 0-3 defeat to Iran in the opening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3938,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}