{"id":43990,"date":"2021-10-25T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43990"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:26:30","slug":"afc-u-23-asian-cup-qualifiers-mahdavikia-satisfied-with-win-against-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/afc-u-23-asian-cup-qualifiers-mahdavikia-satisfied-with-win-against-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-23 Asian Cup Qualifiers: Mahdavikia satisfied with win against Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUSHANBE, <strong>Iran U-23 football coach Mehdi Mahdavikia is satisfied with the win over Nepal at the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Iran defeated Nepal 4-0 in Group B in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with my players\u2019 performance but I believe that we could have won the match with more goals. Our players missed their chances against Nepal but will try to capitalize on our opportunities,\u201d Mahdavikia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is scheduled to meet Lebanon on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to earn three points against Lebanon however they are an unknown team for us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 42 teams are competing in the qualifiers including host Uzbekistan. However, its results will not be taken into account when the group ranking will be decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each team will play once against each other in the group. The 11 group-winners will directly qualify for the main event, while the four-best runners-up will also go through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUSHANBE, Iran U-23 football coach Mehdi Mahdavikia is satisfied with the win over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,175,84,92,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1147,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43990","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=43990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43992,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43990\/revisions\/43992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}