{"id":20294,"date":"2015-01-20T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20294"},"modified":"2015-01-20T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:38:54","slug":"asian-cup-iraq-beats-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/20\/asian-cup-iraq-beats-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Cup: Iraq beats Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; CANBERRA, <strong>Iraqi national football team will play Iran in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup quarter-final on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi football team defeated Palestine 2-0 in Canberra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s breakthrough came in the 48th minute when striker Younis Mahmood headed the ball into the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Yasin put the result beyond doubt in the 88th minute with a shot from the left post.<\/p>\n<p>The victory has sent Iraq to the knock-out stage of the tournament with six points, after group leaders Japan sailed to a 2-0 victory against Jordan in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq lost to Iran 2-1 in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup group stage in Doha. The Iraqi team also lost to Team Melli 1-0 in a friendly in Sydney ahead of the current competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; CANBERRA, Iraqi national football team will play Iran in the 2015 AFC Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":19958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3435,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294","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=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}