{"id":35069,"date":"2019-01-17T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35069"},"modified":"2019-01-19T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T09:21:48","slug":"iran-to-face-oman-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/17\/iran-to-face-oman-in-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to face Oman in round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Iran will play Oman in the first knockout game on Sunday evening, after the Persian Gulf state qualified as one of the best third-placed teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had Lebanon scored a goal more against North Korea today, or received less yellow cards in the tournament, they would have advanced instead of Iran&#8217;s group opposition Vietnam, and have been Iran&#8217;s opponent instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oman had conceded an unlucky 0-1 loss to Japan after already having suffered a 1-2 defeat to Uzbekistan, despite having been the better team. Eventually, a 3-1 win over Turkmenistan was enough to qualify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last time the two sides met in an Asian Cup, Iran came back from a two-goal deficit to snatch a last-minute 2-2 draw in a heated game in group stage 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of the match will meet the victorious team of the China versus Thailand clash in quarter finals on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Saudi Arabia&#8217;s 0-2 loss to Qatar means the round of 16 will see the first Asian World Cup participant eliminated, as the Green Falcons wil now have to face group F winners Japan.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ABU DHABI, Iran will play Oman in the first knockout game on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":34824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2159,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35072,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions\/35072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}