{"id":49133,"date":"2023-06-13T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49133"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:04:18","slug":"cafa-nations-cup-2023-iran-too-strong-for-afghanistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/06\/13\/cafa-nations-cup-2023-iran-too-strong-for-afghanistan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"CAFA Nations Cup 2023: Iran too strong for Afghanistan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BISHKEK, <strong>Iran defeated Afghanistan 6-1 in their opening match in the 2023 CAFA Nations Cup on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held at the Dolon Omurzakov Stadium in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sardar Azmoun opened the scoring for the Persians in the 20th minute with a header.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taremi made it 2-0 in the 21st minute and found the back of the net from the penalty spot seven minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza Jahanbakhsh scored Iran\u2019s fourth goal just before the halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Taremi completed his hattrick six minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Farshad Nour pulled a goal back in the 57th minute from a set-piece.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Reza Asadi scored Iran\u2019s sixth goal in the 67th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will also play hosts Kyrgyzstan in Group B on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Group A consists of host Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>The respective group winners will face off in the final while the runners-up will play for third place, with both matches scheduled for June 20.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HIGHLIGHTS | Iran - Afghanistan | Group B | CAFA Nations Cup | 2023 \u00a9\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1oSFp7IUkoU?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BISHKEK, Iran defeated Afghanistan 6-1 in their opening match in the 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,213,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-cafa","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1403,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133","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=49133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49135,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions\/49135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}