{"id":52141,"date":"2024-10-15T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T19:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52141"},"modified":"2024-10-15T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:17:00","slug":"dominant-iran-down-qatar-in-2026-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/10\/15\/dominant-iran-down-qatar-in-2026-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Iran down Qatar in 2026 World Cup qualifier [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>Iran national football team earned a vital win in Group A of the 2026 World Cup qualifier, beating Qatar 4-1 in Dubai\u2019s Rashid Stadium on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almoez Ali was on target for Qatar in the 17th minute but his goal canceled out by Sardar Azmoun in the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Azmoun needed just three minutes to find the back of the net thanks to a mistake from Qatar goalkeeper Meshaal Barsham.<\/p>\n<p>He then assisted on Mohammad Mohebbi\u2019s goal in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s substitutes Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Shahriar Moghanlou scored but their goals were ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n<p>Mohebbi completed his brace in stoppage time with a header inside the area.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli went top of Group A with 10 points thanks to a better goal difference than Uzbekistan, who had defeated the UAE 1-0 earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xfm2rvTZNg8\">HIGHLIGHTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nvE-HEuUrdA\">WATCH FULL MATCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Iran national football team earned a vital win in Group A of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":52142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2471,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52141","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=52141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52147,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52141\/revisions\/52147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}