{"id":52404,"date":"2024-11-19T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52404"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:51:55","slug":"iran-secure-hard-fought-win-over-kyrgyzstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/11\/19\/iran-secure-hard-fought-win-over-kyrgyzstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran secure hard-fought win over Kyrgyzstan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team defeated Kyrgyzstan 3-2 in Group A of the 2026 World Cup qualification on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taremi gave the visiting team the lead in the 13th minute at the Dolen Omurzakov Stadium in Bishkek and Saleh Hardani made the scoreboard 2-0 in the 33rd minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Kojo pulled a goal back with a header six minutes into the second half and converted his penalty four minutes after the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Sardar Azmoun scored Iran\u2019s third goal with a header in the 76th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli almost secured their berth in the 2026 World Cup with 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Uzbekistan defeated DPR Korea 1-0 and are second with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will meet the United Arab Emirates when the AFC Asian Qualifiers resume in March with Kyrgyzstan to take on Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FV-aQHwkL_k\">&gt;&gt;&gt; HIGHLIGHTS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team defeated Kyrgyzstan 3-2 in Group A of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":52405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2294,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52404","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=52404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52407,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52404\/revisions\/52407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}