{"id":34867,"date":"2019-01-06T17:52:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34867"},"modified":"2019-01-06T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T01:52:21","slug":"jahanbakhsh-to-miss-irans-first-match-against-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/06\/jahanbakhsh-to-miss-irans-first-match-against-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahanbakhsh to miss Iran\u2019s first match against Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, \u00a0<strong>Iran national football team classy winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh will not be fit for the match against Yemen in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albion&#8217;s record signing, who sustained hamstring damage in the 3-1 defeat at Everton in October, is not fit for Iran\u2019s opening match .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli have been scheduled to meet Yemen in Group D of the competition in Abu Dhabi, the UAE on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom a medical and technical point of view, we have a strong belief that he will be able to recover for the competition, although possibly not for the first stage,\u201d Queiroz had already said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran go into the tournament as one of the favorites, but injuries to a number of key players including&nbsp;Saeid Ezatolahi, Ali Golizadeh and&nbsp;Sadegh Moharrami could impact their run in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli begin their campaign against Yemen before squaring off against Vietnam and Iraq as they chase their first Asian Cup title since 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, \u00a0Iran national football team classy winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh will not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":701,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34867","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=34867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34869,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34867\/revisions\/34869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}