{"id":23242,"date":"2015-11-12T05:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2015-11-12T05:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T13:28:24","slug":"team-melli-defeats-turkmenistan-in-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/12\/team-melli-defeats-turkmenistan-in-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli defeats Turkmenistan in World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 TEHRAN, <strong>Iran celebrated a well-deserved victory over Turkmenistan in the World Cup 2018 and Asian Cup 2019 qualifier on Thursday afternoon in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian national team had to play against Turkmenistan without several key players. Teymourian (visa issues regarding the upcoming Guam qualifier), Jalal Hosseini and Sardar Azmoun (both injuries) couldn\u2019t participate in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran started well and dominated the match in the first half. Morteza Pouraliganji scored the well-deserved lead for Iran in the 7th minute with a stunning header after a brilliant corner by Ashkan Dejagah.<\/p>\n<p>Iran created further opportunities to extend the lead. A Dejagah volley (9\u2019) was denied by the Turkmenistan goalkeeper and shots by Ebrahimi (34\u2019) and Rezaei (41\u2019) barely missed the goal.<\/p>\n<p>The second half started with a spell of pressure for Turkmenistan. Dejagah&#8217;s shot hit the post, Iran striker Rezaei (50\u2019) and Torabi (52\u2019) amateurishly missed their chances to score from close range.<\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan shocked Iran as Iran goalkeeper Haghighi misjudged a corner and Saparov could easily score the equalizer for Turkmenistan (62\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s answer didn\u2019t keep the fans waiting as Ezzatollahi abandoned three defenders and scored the 2-1 lead for Iran (64\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Iran was awarded a penalty kick after Ghoochannejhad was fouled in the penalty area. Dejagah took the penalty and defeat the goalkeeper easily (83\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Iran is now leading the group D with 11 points together with Oman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IRAN \u2013 Turkmenistan 3-1 (1-0)<\/strong><br \/>\nWorld Cup\/Asian Cup qualifier, Tehran Azadi Stadium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals:<\/strong><br \/>\n1-0 Pouraliganji (6\u2019\/assist by Dejagah)<\/p>\n<p>1-1 Saparov (62\u2019)<\/p>\n<p>2-1 Ezzatollahi (64\u2019)<\/p>\n<p>3-1 Dejagah (83\u2019\/penalty)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bookings:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ebrahimi, Amanov<\/p>\n<p><strong>IRAN:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Haghighi \u2013 Rezaeian, Pouraliganji, Pourghaz, Hajsafi \u2013 Ebrahimi, Ezzatollahi (80\u2019 Kamiabinya \u2013 Amiri (46\u2019 Jahanbakhsh), Dejagah, Torabi \u2013 Kaveh Rezaei (73\u2019 Ghochannejhad)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 TEHRAN, Iran celebrated a well-deserved victory over Turkmenistan in the World Cup 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":23244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3485,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}