{"id":33202,"date":"2018-08-20T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33202"},"modified":"2018-08-20T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:30:11","slug":"asian-games-2018-iran-advance-despite-losing-to-myanmar-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/20\/asian-games-2018-iran-advance-despite-losing-to-myanmar-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: Iran advance despite losing to Myanmar [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CIKARANG, <strong>Iran U23 football team advanced to the 2018 Asian Games Round of 16 despite losing to Myanmar 2-0 on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following a goalless first half at the Patriot Stadium, Myanmar broke the deadlock in the 56th minute by Lwin Moe Aung.<\/p>\n<p>Htet Phyoe Wai scored Myanmar\u2019s second goal in the 68th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, for Myanmar, it proved to be in vain as they finished bottom of Group F on goal difference, despite all four teams having four points to their names.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it is Iran who advance as Group F winners with DPR Korea \u2013 who beat Saudi Arabia 3-0 in other game \u2013 joining them automatically as runners-up, while the Saudis are also through as one of the four-best third-placed teams.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Group E runners-up on Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Asian Games, officially known as the 18th Asian Games and also known as Jakarta Palembang 2018, is a pan-Asian multi-sport event scheduled to be held from 18 August to 2 September in the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes compete in 465 events across 40 sports and 67 disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>These are the 18th edition of the quadrennial event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mG6_t-iJExI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mG6_t-iJExI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CIKARANG, Iran U23 football team advanced to the 2018 Asian Games Round&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1493,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202","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=33202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33204,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202\/revisions\/33204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}