{"id":12998,"date":"2012-06-04T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/04\/qatar-edges-past-lebanon-in-world-cup-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2012-06-04T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:50:32","slug":"qatar-edges-past-lebanon-in-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/04\/qatar-edges-past-lebanon-in-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar edges past Lebanon in World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20120604\/gholami20120604043532483.jpg\" height=\"182\" width=\"325\" \/>PressTV &#8211; BEIRUT, <strong>Qatar has edged past Lebanon in the Asian qualifying round for the 2014 World Cup, thanks to a solo goal by striker Sebastian Soria.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The two sides played the opening Group A World Cup qualifier match in Beirut on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Soria scored eighteen minutes after the match, taking advantage of a poor pass from Lebanese defender Ramez Dayoub and then eluding goalkeeper Ziad El-Samad for an easy tap-in. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals, returns home to meet South Korea on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Lebanon will also face Uzbekistan after the Central Asians lost 1-0 to Iran at home earlier on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar and Iran are both at the top of the Group A table after achieving opening victories. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian squad on Sunday defeated hosts Uzbekistan 1-0 in injury time in the opening game of the fourth round of the AFC 2014 World Cup qualification tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Iran, South Korea, Qatar, Lebanon, and Uzbekistan are in Group A. The top two teams from the group will advance to the World Cup finals directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; BEIRUT, Qatar has edged past Lebanon in the Asian qualifying round for the&#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-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3579,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","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=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}