{"id":35289,"date":"2019-01-28T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35289"},"modified":"2019-01-28T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:35:17","slug":"strong-iran-left-empty-handed-in-asian-cup-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/28\/strong-iran-left-empty-handed-in-asian-cup-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Iran left empty-handed in Asian Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN,  <strong>Iran\u2019s dream of making it to their first AFC Asian Cup final after 43 years was over as Team Melli lost to Japan 3-0 in the competition\u2019s semi-final on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s side, who were the \nfavorites to win the Asian Cup, lost to the Samurai Blue at the Hazza \nbin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan looked more dangerous in the start \nof the match and Ritsu Doan left-footed shot from the center of the box \nmissed to the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three minutes later, Sardar Azmoun shot from the left side of the box was pushed away for a corner by Japan goalkeeper Gonda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 56th minute, Yuya Osako opened Iran\u2019s goal with a header.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan were awarded a penalty in the 67th minute after Takumi Minamino cross touched the hand of a sliding Morteza Pouraligani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon review with the Video Assistant \nReferee (VAR), Australian referee Chris Beath confirmed the penalty and \nOsako scored his second goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli tried to find a way back into \nthe contest and young players Saman Ghoddos and Mehdi Torabi came off \nthe bench but failed to pull a goal back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the dying moments of the match, Genki Haraguchi found the back of the net on a counter attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Samurai Blue will face the winners of the UAE and Qatar on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GPPeK5zvIZo\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran\u2019s dream of making it to their first AFC Asian Cup final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1563,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289","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=35289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35291,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289\/revisions\/35291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}