{"id":37763,"date":"2019-10-15T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37763"},"modified":"2019-10-15T16:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:02:49","slug":"iran-lose-to-bahrain-in-world-cup-qualifier-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/10\/15\/iran-lose-to-bahrain-in-world-cup-qualifier-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran lose to Bahrain in World Cup qualifier [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Tehran &#8211; RIFFA,\u00a0<strong>Iran suffered a 1-0 loss against Bahrain at matchday 4 of Asia\u2019s Round 2 qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar in Group C on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uzbekistani referee Valentin Kovalenko awarded a penalty stroke to Bahrain in the 65th minute which Mohamed Al Hardan coolly slotted home in Riffa\u2019s at Bahrain National Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli have already defeated Hong Kong and Cambodia in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result means Bahrain now share the summit of the group with Iraq with seven points each, although a superior scoring record sees Iraq claiming the top spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran dropped to third with six points from three matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli face a challenging trip to Iraq in November, while Bahrain head east to play Hong Kong next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/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=52XCo-iL6-E\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Tehran &#8211; RIFFA,\u00a0Iran suffered a 1-0 loss against Bahrain at matchday 4 of Asia\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2086,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763","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=37763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37765,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37763\/revisions\/37765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}