{"id":35851,"date":"2019-03-24T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35851"},"modified":"2019-03-24T22:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T05:21:27","slug":"afc-u23-championship-qualifiers-group-c-ir-iran-iraq-to-decide-group-winner-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/24\/afc-u23-championship-qualifiers-group-c-ir-iran-iraq-to-decide-group-winner-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U23 Championship  Qualifiers &#8211; Group C: IR Iran, Iraq to decide group winner [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq will face off on Tuesday to decide the winners of Group C of the AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020 Qualifiers after registering convincing wins on Matchday Two.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran followed up on their opening day win over Turkmenistan with a 3-0 triumph over Yemen, but only after having to endure a scoreless first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Substitute Reza Shekari calmed Iran&#8217;s nerves with the opener in the 55th minute and once in the lead, the young Team Melli took full control of proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reza Jabired doused Yemen&#8217;s hopes of finding their way back into the tie with Iran&#8217;s second in the 67th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Striker Mehdi Mehdikhani then ensured Iran ended with a flourish as he scored their third in the 75th minute to set up a mouth-watering tie against Iraq on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s superior goal difference means a draw will suffice for them to take <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">top<\/g> spot, which would mean automatic qualification for next January&#8217;s Finals.<\/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=SrxkTmUpnwc\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq will face off on Tuesday to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1134,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35851","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=35851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35853,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35851\/revisions\/35853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}