{"id":22529,"date":"2015-09-03T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22529"},"modified":"2015-09-03T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:14:39","slug":"asian-favourites-underline-their-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/09\/03\/asian-favourites-underline-their-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian favourites underline their dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Asian favourites underlined their dominance on matchday three with the continent&#8217;s quartet at Brazil 2014 all cruising to big wins at home. Australia and Korea-Republic maintained their unblemished record while Japan and Iran registered their first three points.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group D front-runners Guam were back brought down to the earth after conceding six unanswered goals against hosts Iran. Striking youngsters Sardar Azmoun and Mehdi Taremi each completed a brace as Team Melli rediscovered their winning form. Oman, meanwhile, defeated Turkmenistan 3-1 as they share the top spot with Guam with six points each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The player<\/strong><br \/>\nAlready one of the burgeoning stars of Iran, Sardar Azmoun continued his emergence on the international stage by firing his side to a first qualifying victory in this campaign. The 20-year-old Rostov marksman earned a spot-kick through which Ashkan Dejagah opened the scoring, before netting two quick-fire goals as Team Melli swept past Guam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matchday 3 results:<\/strong><br \/>\n3 September<br \/>\nGroup A: United Arab Emirates 10-0 Malaysia; Saudi Arabia 7-0 Timor-Leste<br \/>\nGroup B: Australia 5-0 Bangladesh; Jordan 0-0 Kyrgyzstan<br \/>\nGroup C: China PR 0-0 Hong Kong; Qatar 15-0 Bhutan<br \/>\nGroup D: Iran 6-0 Guam; Oman 3-1 Turkmenistan<br \/>\nGroup E: Japan 3-0 Cambodia; Syria 1-0 Singapore<br \/>\nGroup F: Iraq 5-1 Chinese Taipei*<br \/>\nGroup G: Korea Republic 8-0 Laos; Kuwait 7-0 Myanmar<br \/>\nGroup H: Bahrain 0-1 Korea DPR, Uzbekistan 1-0 Yemen<br \/>\n*All matches involving Indonesia have been cancelled as a result of the suspension of their Football Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; TEHRAN, Asian favourites underlined their dominance on matchday three with the continent&#8217;s quartet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2495,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22529","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}