{"id":50438,"date":"2024-01-18T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50438"},"modified":"2024-01-18T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:59:44","slug":"iran-can-advance-to-knockout-stage-with-win-over-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/01\/18\/iran-can-advance-to-knockout-stage-with-win-over-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran can advance to knockout stage with win over Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AL RAYYAN, <strong>Iran could move within touching distance of the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 knockout stage with a win over Hong Kong when they meet in a Group C tie on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three-time champion Iran opened its campaign with a 4-1 win over Palestine while Hong Kong needs the three points after suffering a 3-1 defeat to United Arab Emirates on Matchday One.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has won each of its last six internationals against Hong Kong, outscoring them 16-1 across that stretch including a 4-0 win in its most recent encounter (November 2023) while its only previous meeting at the AFC Asian Cup ended in a 2-0 win to Iran (1968 group stage).<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has failed to register a single win in the AFC Asian Cup playing 11 games so far (D3 L8), at least four more than any other side without a win (Palestine with seven games).<\/p>\n<p>Four different Iran players scored on against Palestine, their joint-most record in an AFC Asian Cup game alongside a 5-0 win over Yemen in 2019. Only Australia had more goal scorers in a game \u2013 six against Uzbekistan in the 2011 semi-finals (6-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AL RAYYAN, Iran could move within touching distance of the AFC Asian Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":50439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1050,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50438","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=50438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50440,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50438\/revisions\/50440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}