{"id":51904,"date":"2024-09-12T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51904"},"modified":"2024-09-12T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:21:00","slug":"wcq-2026-amir-ghalenoei-rues-missed-chances-against-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/09\/12\/wcq-2026-amir-ghalenoei-rues-missed-chances-against-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ 2026: Amir Ghalenoei rues missed chances against UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AL AIN, <strong>Head coach Amir Ghalenoei was left with mixed feelings after his Iran side remained perfect in Group A of the AFC Asian Qualifiers \u2013 Road to 26 with a 1-0 victory over United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the second game running, Iran created plenty of chances but had to be satisfied with only a 1-0 win with the 60-year-old left pleased with the points collected but looking to improve his side\u2019s finishing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate Mr. Bento for the good team he has built. It is one of the best teams that UAE has built,\u201d said Ghalenoei. \u201cIt was a match that could have ended with a difference of three or four goals and at the same time, was almost a draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the game, I said that we had identified the UAE&#8217;s strengths in (the match against) Qatar, neutralized them and scored from their weaknesses. In fact, we could have scored more goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not convert 90 percent of our chances. Sometimes football punishes you for that but fortunately, we were not punished but it is a problem we have to solve,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AL AIN, Head coach Amir Ghalenoei was left with mixed feelings after his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51904","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":1230,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904","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=51904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51905,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions\/51905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}