{"id":40617,"date":"2020-10-06T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40617"},"modified":"2020-10-06T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:43:58","slug":"we-defeated-iran-in-a-six-pointer-match-humam-tariq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/06\/we-defeated-iran-in-a-six-pointer-match-humam-tariq\/","title":{"rendered":"We defeated Iran in a six-pointer match: Humam Tariq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iraq national football team midfielder Humam Tariq says that they have defeated Iran in a six-pointer match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran lost to Iraq 2-1 in&nbsp;November at the Qatar 2022 World Cup Asian qualifiers in Amman, Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Iran needs to win its next three matches before its meeting with Iraq, which might well decide who progresses to the final qualifying round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs for Iran, they\u2019re always favorites to qualify for the World Cup, and that\u2019s why our clash with them was very critical. You can\u2019t afford to lose to them. We played very well against them and I think the winning goal that came in the dying moments was a reward for all our efforts. It was a real six-pointer. Their defeat to Bahrain has also put them in a critical position,\u201d Tariq told the-afc.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Iraq and Bahrain had played five games before football was suspended due to the coronavirus, Iran had played one game less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know they\u2019ll do their utmost to get all nine points before the game against us. We\u2019ll certainly be ready for this, and we also want to reach the final qualifying round as group winners,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re top of Group C and have three matches remaining. So, we have to win them all. We want to progress to the final qualifying round as winner of our section in order to achieve the dream of gracing the World Cup for the first time since 1986,\u201d the former Esteghlal player&nbsp;stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iraq national football team midfielder Humam Tariq says that they have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40617","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":1489,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40617","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=40617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40619,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40617\/revisions\/40619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}