{"id":34913,"date":"2019-01-07T23:37:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34913"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:39:49","slug":"five-star-iran-batter-yemen-to-fire-asian-cup-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/07\/five-star-iran-batter-yemen-to-fire-asian-cup-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-star Iran Batter Yemen to Fire Asian Cup Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> News18.com &#8211; Abu Dhabi, <strong>Looking to end a 43-year title drought since last winning Asian football&#8217;s most coveted prize, Iran ruthlessly dispatched the Group D minnows in Abu Dhabi. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Taremi scored twice as Iran crushed Yemen 5-0 in the war-torn \ncountry&#8217;s Asian Cup debut on Monday to send a message to their title \nrivals.<br \/><br \/>\nLooking to end a 43-year title drought since last winning Asian \nfootball&#8217;s most coveted prize, Iran ruthlessly dispatched the Group D \nminnows in Abu Dhabi.<br \/><br \/>\nJoint favourites with South Korea, Iran took just 12 minutes to take the\n lead as Taremi finished clinically from close range after a shot from \nSardar Azmoun was fumbled by Yemen keeper Saud Al Sowaidi.<br \/><br \/>\n\n \n \n Captain Ashkan Dejagah doubled his side&#8217;s lead in the 23rd minute with a\n low free kick which cannoned in off the post and the hapless Alsowaidi \nbefore Taremi powered home a header moments later.<br \/><br \/>\n\n\t \n\tAzmoun tapped in a fourth goal seven minutes into the second half, by \nwhich time Iran were playing some champagne football, pulling off \nextravagant flicks and back-heels that left Yemen&#8217;s players chasing \nshadows.<br \/><br \/>\nWhen substitute Saman Ghoddos volleyed home Iran&#8217;s fifth from the edge \nof the box after 78 minutes the Yemen players looked physically \nshattered.<br \/><br \/>\nOnly the woodwork prevented Mahdi Torabi adding a spectacular sixth in injury time.<br \/><br \/>\nFierce rivals Iraq take on Vietnam in the other Group D game on Tuesday.\t \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News18.com &#8211; Abu Dhabi, Looking to end a 43-year title drought since last winning Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1092,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34913","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34919,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34913\/revisions\/34919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}