{"id":37956,"date":"2019-11-14T08:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37956"},"modified":"2019-11-14T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:42:07","slug":"lackluster-iran-suffer-late-loss-against-iraq-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/14\/lackluster-iran-suffer-late-loss-against-iraq-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackluster Iran suffer late loss against Iraq [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMMAN, <strong>Iran national football team suffered a second successive loss in the 2022 World Cup qualification, losing to Iraq 2-1 on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the match held in neutral venue Amman, Mohanad Ali gave the Iraqi team the lead from the edge of the six-yard area in the 11th minute after the Iranian defenders failed to clear the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran midfielder Ahmad Nourollahi levelled the score with a well-taken goal in the 25th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq started better the second half and put Team Melli under pressure and made some scoring chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With nine minutes remaining, Iran went down to 10 men after captain Masoud Shojaei received his second yellow card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Substitute Alaa Abbas found the back of Iran\u2019s net with a header in the dying moments of the match and kept Iraq at the top of Group C with 10 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marc Wilmots\u2019s team had lost to Bahrain 1-0 in mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on the day, Bahrain were held to a goalless draw by Hong Kong in the group, but remained second with eight points, two points ahead of third-placed Iran. &nbsp;<\/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\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iraq vs Iran 2-1 FIFA World cup qualifying, highlights and goals\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRiz9TazTrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMMAN, Iran national football team suffered a second successive loss in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37956","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":2896,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956","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=37956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37958,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions\/37958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}