{"id":43419,"date":"2021-09-01T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43419"},"modified":"2021-09-01T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:58:00","slug":"iran-looking-to-start-world-cup-qualification-on-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/iran-looking-to-start-world-cup-qualification-on-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran looking to start World Cup qualification on high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team is looking forward to starting the final round of the 2022 World Cup qualification on high.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is to play Syria in Group A on Thursday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium and Dragan Skocic wants to start the campaign with a win against West Asian heavyweights Syria since the Persians have a difficult task ahead in the upcoming matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old foe South Korea, archrivals Iraq, the UAE, and Lebanon are also in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is a team with a lot of confidence at the moment after winning their previous five games in a row and they have managed to do that with real style and flair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic\u2019s team has kept four clean sheets in matches against Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bahrain, and Iraq in June in the second round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syria has never actually qualified for the World Cup, which is something that they will look to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The 12 teams are divided into two groups of six, with the winners and runners-up of each group qualifying, while the third-placed teams will advance to the Asian playoff to determine the side that will advance to the intercontinental playoff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The action begins on Sept. 2 with an exciting clash in Group A when FIFA World Cup regulars Korea Republic host Iraq in what is expected to be a thrilling duel at the Seoul World Cup Stadium at 8 pm (local time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, who are aiming for their sixth appearance in the FIFA World Cup, face Syria, who will be aiming to maintain their fine form from Round 2 of the Asian Qualifiers, at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran at 8.30pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team is looking forward to starting the final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43419","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":1001,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43419","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=43419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43421,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43419\/revisions\/43421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}