{"id":37999,"date":"2019-11-19T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37999"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:50:33","slug":"bahrain-iraq-draw-to-benefit-iran-in-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/19\/bahrain-iraq-draw-to-benefit-iran-in-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain, Iraq draw to benefit Iran in World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mehr News Agency &#8211; AMMAN, <strong>The national men&#8217;s football teams of Iraq and Bahrain drew 0-0 in a Tuesday  match in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 to help Iran remain hopeful to  advance from the Asia\u2019s second qualifying round.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is \ncurrently standing in third place of Group C of Asia\u2019s second qualifying\n round for the&nbsp;FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 with 6 points after Iraq and \nBahrain with 11 and 9 points, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is that Iran has done a match less than those two rivals,  therefore the today&#8217;s draw between Iraq and Bahrain can help Iran keep  its hopes alive to advance to the next level of the competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopes for Iran had&nbsp;dimmed after it suffered narrow defeats against both Bahrain and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has been seeded in Group C alongside Iraq, Bahrain, Cambodia and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the \nAFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for \nthe FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers \nwill compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the\n 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News Agency &#8211; AMMAN, The national men&#8217;s football teams of Iraq and Bahrain drew&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":37723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1772,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38002,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999\/revisions\/38002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}