{"id":11841,"date":"2011-01-14T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T03:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/14\/bahrain-5-2-india\/"},"modified":"2011-01-14T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T03:36:21","slug":"bahrain-5-2-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/14\/bahrain-5-2-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain 5-2 India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ68Ftt4x1HQvsBJOp9tb_OfN6Ie6M_J1PCoBn-jhSRvdUThGlzOw\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Four goals from Ismaeel Abdulatif guided Bahrain to a 5-2 win at Al  Sadd Stadium on Friday and confirmed India\u2019s exit from the AFC Asian Cup  Qatar 2011\u2122. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faouzi Aaish gave Bahrain after six minutes but India levelled three minutes later through Gouramangi Singh. <\/p>\n<p>Abdulatif  got his first of the night in the 19th minute and added another goal  three minutes later before completing his hat-trick ten minutes from the  interval.<\/p>\n<p>India reduced the deficit seven minutes into the  second half through Sunil Chhetri but Abdulatif regained his side\u2019s  three-goal cushion for Bahrain with 13 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>India  had made a bright start to the game and had created the first chance  after three minutes when Climax Lawrence delivered a cross for Chhetri,  but his volley was superbly pushed away for a corner by keeper Mahmood  Mansoor.<\/p>\n<p>But it was Bahrain who opened the scoring three minutes  later when they were awarded a penalty after Lawrence brought down Aaish  inside the penalty area and the latter picked himself up to fire home  from the spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini celebrations for that goal had only  just subsided when India levelled as Abishek Yadav directed a header  from a long cross for Gouramangi Singh, who stabbed home from close  range.<\/p>\n<p>However, the goals continued to come as Bahrain restored  their lead in the 19th minute when an Aaish cross struck the legs of  Subrata Paul and the ball fell for Abdulatif, who made no mistake when  faced with the empty net.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulatif scored again three minutes  later when Jaycee John made a good run on the right before delivering a  low cross into the area for Abdulatif to turn home.<\/p>\n<p>And it was  4-1 10 minutes before the break with Aaish again the architect as the  midfielder played a smart ball for Abdulatif to chase on to and fire  beyond Paul.<\/p>\n<p>India started the second half as they had the first  and they pulled a goal back seven minutes after the break when Renedy  Singh\u2019s shot struck the underside of the crossbar and though it appeared  to cross the line, Chhetri headed home a rebound after Yadav had also  hit the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>An impressive performance on the pitch was  soured for Aaish when he was shown a second yellow card just after the  hour before Abdulatif completed the rout for Bahrain with his fourth in  the 77th minute, driving home from the edge of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Four goals from Ismaeel Abdulatif guided Bahrain to a 5-2 win at&#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-11841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2459,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841","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=11841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}