{"id":52079,"date":"2024-10-06T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52079"},"modified":"2024-10-06T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T00:26:27","slug":"wcq-2026-uzbekistan-iran-match-promises-to-be-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/10\/06\/wcq-2026-uzbekistan-iran-match-promises-to-be-tight\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ 2026: Uzbekistan-Iran match promises to be tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Something has to give when Uzbekistan\u2019s football team welcomes Iran to the Bunyodkor Stadium in Tashkent for its top-of-the-table clash in the 2026 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both teams are on six points, with Uzbekistan having defeated DPR Korea and Kyrgyzstan in its opening two matches while Iran was victorious against Kyrgyzstan and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>It promises to be a tight contest with the two sides having also met in the second round of the qualifiers, with both matches ending in stalemates.<\/p>\n<p>With either one or both of the top two teams set to drop points on Thursday, the rest of the Group A cast will be looking to capitalize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Something has to give when Uzbekistan\u2019s football team welcomes Iran to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":52080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1172,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52079","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=52079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52081,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52079\/revisions\/52081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}