{"id":14167,"date":"2013-03-23T03:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T10:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14167"},"modified":"2013-03-23T05:10:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T12:10:51","slug":"big-lebanon-win-uzbekistan-and-qatar-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/03\/23\/big-lebanon-win-uzbekistan-and-qatar-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Lebanon win, Uzbekistan and Qatar lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Asian Cup qualifiers resumed throughout Asia on Friday, with only Iran&#8217;s clash against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia&#8217;s game in Indonesia having been postponed to Tuesday and Saturday respecitively as well as both matches of group A, which will be played in autumn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were some matches with connection to Iran though, Lebanon defeating Thailand 5-2 in Beirut being one of them in two aspects. Not only those two teams are in Iran&#8217;s Asian Cup qualifying group B, but also Lebanon are competing in Iran&#8217;s World Cup qualifying group A.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon will travel to Uzbekistan for the World Cup qualifier on Tuesday and Iranian fans will certainly hope the visitors will at least snatch a point from Iran&#8217;s main rivals, like they did in the previous encounter in Beirut last year (1-1).<\/p>\n<p>The big win surely boosted the morale of the Lebanese team, which had surprisingly defeated Iran in a World Cup qualifier last year, but was humiliated 5-0 in Tehran on matchday 1 of Asian Cup qualification in February.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Uzbekistan&#8217;s poor form of 2013 continued, increasing the hopes of a set-up on Tuesday. After a goalless draw against minnows Hong Kong in Asian Cup qualification in Tashkent in February, Kasimov&#8217;s men suffered a 1-2 defeat in the UAE in the same competition on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow World Cup qualification rivals Qatar also were beaten on the same day, suffering a 0-1 loss to Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar will travel to South Korea for a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Asian Cup qualifiers resumed throughout Asia on Friday, with only Iran&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":5225,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167","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=14167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}