{"id":50630,"date":"2024-02-07T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50630"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:16:41","slug":"iran-fall-short-against-qatar-in-2023-afc-asian-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/02\/07\/iran-fall-short-against-qatar-in-2023-afc-asian-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran fall short against Qatar in 2023 AFC Asian Cup semis [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football team failed to reach the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final after suffering a 3-2 loss against Qatar on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Doha\u2019s Al Thumama Stadium, Sardar Azmoun gave Iran a lead with a bicycle kick just four minutes into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, however, did not trail for long, drawing level 13 minutes later with Akram Afif\u2019s cutback setting up Jassem Gaber for a shot that took a deflection off Saeid Ezzatohali, looped over Alireza Beiranvand and settled in the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Two minutes before the halftime, Afif scored Qatar\u2019s second goal with a right-footed strike.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza\u00a0 Jahanbakhsh leveled the score from the penalty spot in the 51st minute.<\/p>\n<p>Almoez Ali scored Qatar\u2019s third goal in the 82nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>The condition went from bad to worse\u00a0for Iran when Shoja Khalilzadeh was shown a red card in the injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Qatar to meet Jordaan in the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran vs. Qatar: Extended Highlights | AFC Asian Cup | CBS Sports Golazo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/muqvUW3gYt0?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>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football team failed to reach the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":50631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1823,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50630","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50633,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50630\/revisions\/50633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}