{"id":11856,"date":"2011-01-18T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/18\/australia-1-0-bahrain\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:16:00","slug":"australia-1-0-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/18\/australia-1-0-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia 1-0 Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/asian_cup\/2011\/finals\/300x200\/aus_bhr_action_180111_3x2.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Australia cemented their place in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian  Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 with a narrow 1-0 victory over Bahrain at Al Sadd  Stadium on Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mile Jedinak scored the game\u2019s only goal \u2013 his second in as many  games \u2013 to hand his side their second win of the tournament and ensure  they finish top of Group C ahead of Korea Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides  were clearly eager to get their noses in front early on as Brett Emerton  swept a low shot just wide of the post after three minutes while  Bahrain first threatened two minutes later when Hamad Rakea\u2019s shot flew  over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>But the rain that had been falling  consistently throughout the day clearly had its effect on playing  conditions and both sides struggled to create chances in the following  minutes with Australia having to wait until the 18th minute to create  their second chance when Tim Cahill\u2019s shot was wide of the left upright.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain  went close in the 27th minute when Abdulla Fatadi\u2019s effort went over  the crossbar just three minutes before Jedinak fired over in similar  fashion at the other end.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Schwarzer was first called into  action just after the half hour mark as Abdulla Fatadi made his way into  the area before passing to Ismaeel Abdulatif, whose close-range shot  was denied by the Fulham keeper.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Kewell brought out a save  from Bahrain keeper Mahmood Mansoor soon after but Australia took the  lead in the 37th minute when Jedinak embarked on a good run before  sending a powerful shot from distance into the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Jedinak nearly doubled his side\u2019s advantage two minutes later but this time Mansoor was equal to his rasping drive.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing  their qualification chances slipping away, Bahrain went on the attack  in the second half and they should have levelled the scores five minutes  after the break but Abdulatif\u2019s shot from point blank range was blocked  by Schwarzer.<\/p>\n<p>The Soccerroos could have had a second seven  minutes into the second period when Kewell broke the offside trap before  rounding Mansour but his cross was headed wide by Cahill despite the  Everton marksman having the goal at his mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzer made  another crucial intervention from a well-hit Abdulatif shot midway  through the half, which proved to be the last real chance for the  Bahrainis as Australia successfully closed out the remainder of the  match to seal the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Australia cemented their place in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup&#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-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":1715,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","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=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}