{"id":42587,"date":"2021-06-03T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42587"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:11:53","slug":"2022-asian-qualifiers-iran-defeats-hong-kong-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/06\/03\/2022-asian-qualifiers-iran-defeats-hong-kong-video\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Asian Qualifiers: Iran defeats Hong Kong [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ARAD, <strong>Iran national football team defeated Hong Kong 3-1 in Group C of the Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Gholizadeh opened the scoring for the Iranian team in the 23rd minute at the Al Muharraq Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Charleroi winger scored from a closed range to ease pressure on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vahid Amiri made it 2-0 just after the hour mark, firing a shot from the edge of the penalty area into the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karim Ansarifard scored the third goal in the 84th minute four minutes after coming off the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong midfielder Cheng Siu Kwan pulled a goal back a minute later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran moved up to second place with nine points due to better goal difference than Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq lead the group with 11 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong remained in fourth place with five points and Cambodia have one point in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran vs Hong Kong | All Goals &amp; Highlights | World Cup 2022 Qualifiers 3-6-2021\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cahvzQiTd-w?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; ARAD, Iran national football team defeated Hong Kong 3-1 in Group C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2048,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587","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=42587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42589,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587\/revisions\/42589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}