{"id":27553,"date":"2017-03-21T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27553"},"modified":"2017-03-21T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:56:08","slug":"russia-2018-asian-qualifiers-qatar-vs-iran-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/21\/russia-2018-asian-qualifiers-qatar-vs-iran-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia 2018 Asian Qualifiers: Qatar vs. Iran [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran will look to at least maintain their one-point lead over Korea Republic when they travel to Doha to take on Qatar on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s side are the only unbeaten team in Group A but, after Sardor Azmoun\u2019s goal secured a 1-0 victory over the Taeguk Warriors on Matchday Four, Iran saw their lead at the top of the standings cut four days later when they played out a goalless draw with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents Qatar got off to the worst possible start on the Road to Russia by suffering three defeats on the bounce but responded well by defeating Syria 1-0 and claiming a point in China on Matchdays Four and Five respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The home side, though, will be without four players through suspension with Khalid Muftah, Ahmed Yasser, Abdelkarim Hassan and Meshaal Abdulla all unavailable for selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Islamic Republic of Iran will look to at least maintain their one-point&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":6305,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553","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=27553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}