{"id":37834,"date":"2019-10-26T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37834"},"modified":"2019-10-26T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:42:48","slug":"qualifiers-group-b-ir-iran-too-strong-for-kyrgyz-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/10\/26\/qualifiers-group-b-ir-iran-too-strong-for-kyrgyz-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualifiers &#8211; Group B: IR Iran too strong for Kyrgyz Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; Urmiya, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran completed their AFC Futsal  Championship Turkmenistan 2020 Qualifiers for the South &amp; Central  Zones as group winners after an impressive 8-3 win over Kyrgyz Republic  at the Ghadir Hall on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A perennial Asian powerhouse, and warm favourites in front of a \n5,000-strong home crowd, Iran took less than two minutes to take the \nlead through Hamid Ahmadi, but Kyrgyz Republic showed they would put up a\n fight when they equalised through Shokhrukh Makhmadaminov\u2019s composed \nfinish in the sixth minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Ashgar Hassanzadeh restored Iran\u2019s lead from a rehearsed \nfree-kick routine, before Karimi beat Beklobot Akmataliev at his near \npost to make it 3-1, but Maksat Alimov caught Team Melli napping to \nreduce the arrears at the 11-minute mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/img\/image\/upload\/t_l7\/btwfgklnwkx98zbdy3px.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At that stage the visitors were still well within striking distance, \nbut Iran powered away late in the first half as Javid netted a header \nand Taha Nematian a tap-in before Kyrgyz Republic goalkeeper Aktilek \nEsenaliev was shown a red card for handling the ball too far out from \ngoal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kyrgyz Republic\u2019s woes continued when Javid\u2019s simple finish extended \nthe margin to 6-2 in the 18th minute, although Nursultan Abdyldaev did \nmanage to keep them in touch when he netted the final goal of a \nthrilling opening period by converting from a well-executed \ncounter-attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/img\/image\/upload\/t_l7\/b1yoleyxvn0oqmuc85mj.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The stage was set for a thrilling finale, but Iran never really \nlooked in danger after the interval, with some blocks from both \nAkmataliev and the crossbar \u2013 the latter denying what would have been a \nbeauty from Hassanzadeh &#8211; keeping the score at 6-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fans inside Ghadir Hall knew the points were safe when Karimi \nslammed in Iran\u2019s seventh in the 31st minute, and Javid stroked home his\n third for the night to confirm Team Melli\u2019s win in the 39th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considered one of the world\u2019s best sides, Iran have won 12 of the 15 \nprevious editions of the AFC Futsal Championship, also finishing third \nat the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahdi Javid starred with a hat-trick, while Mahdi Karimi scored \ntwice in an entertaining battle between two already-qualified teams, \nwith nine of the 11 goals coming in an action-packed first half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Urmiya, Islamic Republic of Iran completed their AFC Futsal Championship Turkmenistan 2020 Qualifiers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal"],"views":806,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37834","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=37834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37836,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37834\/revisions\/37836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}