{"id":44252,"date":"2021-11-16T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44252"},"modified":"2021-11-16T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:08:25","slug":"iran-ease-past-syria-in-2022-world-cup-qualifier-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/11\/16\/iran-ease-past-syria-in-2022-world-cup-qualifier-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ease past Syria in 2022 World Cup qualifier [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Iran football team defeated Syria 3-0 in Group A of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification on Tuesday at the King Abdullah II Stadium in Amman, Jordan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sardar Azmoun opened the scoring for Dragan Skocic\u2019s team in the 33rd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ehsan Haji Safi made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With one minute remaining, Ali Gholizadeh found the back of the net after dribbling past several Syrian defenders into the penalty area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on the day, the UAE defeated Lebanon thanks to Ali Mabkhout\u2019s late goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea also beat Iraq 3-0 in Doha. Lee Jae-Sung, Jeong Woo-Yeong and Heung-Min Son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran lead Group A with 16 points, followed by South Korea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE moved up to six points in third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top two teams in the group will qualify for the 2022 World Cup, while the third-placed team will advance to a playoff against the third-placed team in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sardar Azmoun opened the scoring for Dragan Skocic\u2019s team in the 33rd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ehsan Haji Safi made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With one minute remaining, Ali Gholizadeh found the back of the net after dribbling past several Syrian defenders into the penalty area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on the day, the UAE defeated Lebanon thanks to Ali Mabkhout\u2019s late goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea also beat Iraq 3-0 in Doha. Lee Jae-Sung, Jeong Woo-Yeong and Heung-Min Son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran lead Group A with 16 points, followed by South Korea with 14 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE moved up to six points in third place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top two teams in the group will qualify for the 2022 World Cup, while the third-placed team will advance to a playoff against the third-placed team in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners of the playoff will advance to an inter-confederation playoff for a berth in the World Cup.<\/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=\"Syria vs. Iran: Extended Highlights | AFC Asian Qualifiers | CBS Sports Golazo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YrtRdTn7a8?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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football team defeated Syria 3-0 in Group A of the 2022&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2851,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44256,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions\/44256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}