{"id":43601,"date":"2021-09-17T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43601"},"modified":"2021-09-17T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T02:00:10","slug":"iran-defeats-u-s-in-futsal-world-cup-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/17\/iran-defeats-u-s-in-futsal-world-cup-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defeats U.S. in Futsal World Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; VILNIUS, <strong>Iran came from a goal down to defeat the U.S. 4-2 in Group F of the FIFA Futsal World Cup Lithuania 2021 at the Vilnius Arena on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two consecutive wins put Iran in a strong position to advance to the knockout stage with South American powerhouse Argentina their final Group F opponents on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 12-time Asian champions suffered a setback when goalkeeper Alireza Samimi was sent off in the second minute due to touching the ball outside the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One minute later, Luciano Gonzalez fired his effort past substitute goalkeeper Sepehr Mohammadi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Americans\u2019 lead was short-lived as Iran responded immediately, finding the back of the net through Farhad Tavakoli\u2019s sublime strike-off Farhad Fakhim\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game tilted in Iran\u2019s favor after that as they enjoyed the lion\u2019s share of possession and doubled their lead after Moslem Oladghobad set up Mahdi Javid in the seventh minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. pushed forward to level the score but were hit again when Ahmad Esmaeilpour added Iran\u2019s third goal in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite being forced to depend on counter-attacks, the U.S. reduced the deficit in the 36th minute following the powerplay with goalkeeper Diego Moretti providing the assist for Gonzalez but Saeid Ahmad Abbasi\u00a0sealed the win for Iran with his strike a minute from time.<\/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=\"IR Iran v USA | FIFA Futsal World Cup 2021 | Match Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmBz7fHpUUM?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; VILNIUS, Iran came from a goal down to defeat the U.S. 4-2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1789,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43601","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=43601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43603,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43601\/revisions\/43603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}