{"id":45991,"date":"2022-06-06T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45991"},"modified":"2022-06-06T06:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:33:38","slug":"we-can-only-blame-ourselves-for-turkmenistan-loss-mahdavikia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/06\/06\/we-can-only-blame-ourselves-for-turkmenistan-loss-mahdavikia\/","title":{"rendered":"We can only blame ourselves for Turkmenistan loss: Mahdavikia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; BUNYODKOR, <strong>Iran U-23 football coach Mehdi Mahdavikia says that they have to blame themselves for the loss against Turkmenistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten-man Iran lost to Turkmenistan 2-1 in Group A of the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe only have ourselves to blame for this defeat. I think we lost ourselves in the game, especially in the second half,\u201d said Mahdavikia. \u201cInitially we had a good start in the first 30 minutes which led to the opening goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut a lack of concentration allowed our opponents to level the score. We tried our best to score in the second period but with a man down, that made it difficult for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cComing into the tie, we knew how Turkmenistan would play having lost their opening game. Our analysis was spot on as they matched our game to score the equalizer. We were punished for our mistake in the second half,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The battle for second place will go down to the final match day with Iran facing Uzbekistan on Tuesday, while Turkmenistan will meet Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BUNYODKOR, Iran U-23 football coach Mehdi Mahdavikia says that they have to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2484,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991","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=45991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45993,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991\/revisions\/45993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}