{"id":11566,"date":"2010-10-09T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/09\/u19-yemen-0-2-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T19:02:40","slug":"u19-yemen-0-2-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/09\/u19-yemen-0-2-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"U19: Yemen 0-2 Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"IranU17_Kaveh_Rezaei\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IranU17_Kaveh_Rezaei.jpg\" height=\"313\" width=\"414\" \/>AFC &#8211; LINZI, <strong>Two goals from substitute Kaveh Rezaei ensured Iran ended their AFC U-19  Championships on a high note with a 2-0 win over Yemen in Group D at  Linzi Stadium. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following a goalless first-half, Rezaei broke the deadlock in  the 56th minute with Iran&#8217;s first goal of the tournament before  converting a penalty four minutes from time, one which Yemen skipper  Mohammed Boqshan conceded and collected a second yellow card as a  result.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had the first attempt on goal after just two minutes  but Mojtaba Mahboub&#8217;s spectacular overhead kick unfortunately ended up  in the arms of Yemen keeper Abdo Esam.<\/p>\n<p>Tawfik Emad then lifted  his effort over the bar six minutes later following a strong run into  the box and Mahboub sidefooted woefully wide from Mohammad  Abazadehonbirneyglou&#8217;s inviting cross just after the half hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Only  Hadi Rishi&#8217;s acrobatics denied Yemen in the 33rd minute when the Iran  keeper managed to get a fingertip to Ahmed Al Baidhani&#8217;s mis-directed  cross that threatened to drift in at the far post before Ali Ali fired  wide from the edge of the box shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Iran came even  closer to breaking the deadlock two minutes later when Yaghoub Karimi&#8217;s  inswinging free-kick from the left flank was completely misjudged by  Esam and cannoned of the far post.<\/p>\n<p>Hadi Dehghani then hit the side netting after beating a defender as the half finished goalless.<\/p>\n<p>Iran  did take the lead 11 minutes into the second period. Mahboub showed  good strength in the box to hold off the attentions of the Yemen defence  and although his shot hit Yemen defender Ahmed Al Khamri, Rezaei was on  hand to slot home at the back post.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen had a chance to level  three minutes later when Hesham Al Asbahi beautifully brought down a  cross in the far side of the box but struck his shot disappointingly  over the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi fired a right-foot free-kick inches past the  post in the 75th minute before Yemen were reduced to 10 men with just  four minutes to go as skipper Mohammed Boqshan pole-axed Rezaei in the  box after the striker&#8217;s excellent touch meant he looked certain to  score.<\/p>\n<p>Boqshan was dismissed having already been booked and  although Esam saved Rezaei&#8217;s penalty low down to his left, he was about  three yards off his line when the kick was taken so a re-take was  ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Rezaei made no mistake the second time, firing the ball in the top corner to seal Iran&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; LINZI, Two goals from substitute Kaveh Rezaei ensured Iran ended their AFC U-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3229,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566","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=11566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}