{"id":13007,"date":"2012-06-09T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T13:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/09\/wcq-group-a-lebanon-1-1-uzbekistan\/"},"modified":"2012-06-09T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T13:09:26","slug":"wcq-group-a-lebanon-1-1-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/09\/wcq-group-a-lebanon-1-1-uzbekistan\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ Group A: Lebanon 1-1 Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"wc2014_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wc2014_logo.jpg\" height=\"345\" width=\"300\" \/>GOAL &#8211; BEIRUT, <strong>Lebanon and Uzbekistan drew 1-1 in Beirut in the fourth round of 2014 World Cup qualifying on Friday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Cedars were fortunate to grab a draw from the Uzbeks, as they once again missed captain and central midfielder Roda Antar.<\/p>\n<p>After Sunday&#8217;s loss to Qatar, coach Theo Bucker only made two changes to the starting line-up, bringing in Ali Al Saadi for Ramez Dayoub &#8211; whose error against Qatar gifted the visitors a goal &#8211; and Hassan Mohammad for Mohammad Ghaddar.<\/p>\n<p>The Uzbeks scored an early goal after Lebanon failed to clear a corner. The ball fell to Djasur Khasanov who had enough time to set up the shot and place it into the far right corner, past the reach of keeper Ziad Samad.<\/p>\n<p>The Lebanese struggled to keep up with the Uzbeks&#8217; speed of play as their quick counterattacks often found the Cedars midfield out of position.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon remained resilient though and equalised from a long distance low free kick by defender Al Saadi after 36 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The last few minutes of the match was end to end with Uzbekistan, in particular, unlucky to not have scored a few times, with Samad coming up big.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Zreik also missed a good chance from close range that he drilled into the side netting.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon have now picked up one point fron their first two matches at home. Qatar and Uzbekistan were considered the least challenging of Lebanon&#8217;s matches as they face South Korea and Iran next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; BEIRUT, Lebanon and Uzbekistan drew 1-1 in Beirut in the fourth round of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4194,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007","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=13007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}