{"id":50932,"date":"2024-03-27T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50932"},"modified":"2024-03-27T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:45:48","slug":"afc-asian-qualifiers-ghalenoei-wants-a-sharper-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/03\/27\/afc-asian-qualifiers-ghalenoei-wants-a-sharper-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Qualifiers: Ghalenoei wants a sharper Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ASHGABAT, <strong>Amir Ghalenoei is demanding more potency from his Islamic Republic of Iran team despite having secured a spot at the AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027\u2122 and reaching Round 3 of the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers following a 1-0 win over Turkmenistan on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The head coach, who steered Iran to the semi-finals of the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023\u2122, was unhappy at the profligacy that could have been costly for Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me congratulate the Turkmenistan team for the good game they played,\u201d said Ghalenoei. \u201cThe head coach has a very good team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have won by two or three goals, and of course, in the last minutes, there was a possibility that the game would be tied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Ghayedi\u2019s first half stoppage time goal decided the match, as Iran found Turkmenistan harder to crack after having scored five past them last Thursday.  <\/p>\n<p>The win put IR Iran on 10 points &#8211; the same as Uzbekistan &#8211; with both teams assured of a top two finish. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ASHGABAT, Amir Ghalenoei is demanding more potency from his Islamic Republic of Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":50933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50932","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":1055,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50932","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=50932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50934,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50932\/revisions\/50934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}