{"id":29704,"date":"2017-11-08T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29704"},"modified":"2017-11-08T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T05:59:27","slug":"afc-u-19-championship-2018-qualifiers-iran-keep-qualification-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/08\/afc-u-19-championship-2018-qualifiers-iran-keep-qualification-hopes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-19 Championship 2018 Qualifiers: Irans win against Palestine not enough to qualify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ZARQA CITY, <strong>Despite beating Palestine 4-0, Islamic Republic of Iran face a nervous wait before knowing their AFC U-19 Championship 2018 fate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran were in great form in their win over Palestine but their fate depends on the Jordan-Syria tie which will be played later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran drew against both teams &#8211; 1-1 with Syria and 0-0 with Jordan &#8211; and are now on five points. Jordan and Syria are on four with the hosts ahead on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Having had to settle for draws in their earlier matches, Iran went in for maximum points against already-eliminated Palestine at the Prince Mohammad International Stadium and took the lead in the 10th minute through striker Hossein Nokhodkar.  <\/p>\n<p>The second goal followed just four minutes later with Alireza Ghaderi Zefreh (pictured above, No 21) the goalscorer.  <\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Khodabandehlo added a third just before half-time and Iran were cruising.  <\/p>\n<p>They somewhat took their foot off the pedal in the second half but there was to be a fourth goal, with Mohammad Bagheri finding the back of the net in the 75th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Jordan overcame the setback of going behind against Syria as they advanced to the AFC U-19 Championship 2018 by winning Group E of the Qualifiers at the Prince Mohammad International Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ZARQA CITY, Despite beating Palestine 4-0, Islamic Republic of Iran face a nervous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,140,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u19","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2887,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704","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=29704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}