{"id":12697,"date":"2012-01-25T19:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T03:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/25\/u19-unlucky-iran-bow-out-on-penalties\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T03:53:47","slug":"u19-unlucky-iran-bow-out-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/25\/u19-unlucky-iran-bow-out-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"U19: Unlucky Iran bow out on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/com-cup.com\/images\/phocagallery\/2012\/match22\/thumbs\/phoca_thumb_l_m22_25.jpg\" height=\"223\" width=\"342\" \/>PFDC &#8211; SAINT PETERSBURG, <strong>An injury time equalizer from shooting star Sardar Azmoun wasn&#8217;t enough for Iran&#8217;s U19, as they were defeated 1-4 on penalties by Latvian&#8217;s U21.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The loss came as a surprise for the favourites, who indeed had dominated the game from the start, but had conceded an early goal and then were exposed to the underdog&#8217;s repeated counter attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvians had to play with one man less from minute 47 on, however, were able to defend the lead thanks to Iran&#8217;s lack of effectiveness in front of goal, until the 93rd minute of the game, when Azmoun, the youngest player of the tournament, scored his fifth goal of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is not over for the Iranian youngsters yet, as they will have two further playoffs to determine their final ranking (rank 5 to 8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; SAINT PETERSBURG, An injury time equalizer from shooting star Sardar Azmoun wasn&#8217;t enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3714,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697","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=12697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}