{"id":52856,"date":"2025-02-16T05:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52856"},"modified":"2025-02-16T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:00:13","slug":"iran-down-yemen-at-2025-afc-u20-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/02\/16\/iran-down-yemen-at-2025-afc-u20-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran down Yemen at 2025 AFC U20 Asian Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran closed in on a place in the knockout stage of the AFC U20 Asian Cup China 2025 after cruising 6-0 past Yemen in their Group C tie at the Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Pitch 1 on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran led from start to finish with Abolfazl Zamani starring with a brace with the Central Asian side to be sure of advancing should Indonesia fail to beat Uzbekistan in Sunday\u2019s later game.<\/p>\n<p>Abolfazl Zamani opened the scoring for Iran in the 26th minute after he pounced on a loose ball at the top of the box before sending a stinging shot into the top left corner.<\/p>\n<p>Zamani netted his second in the 34th minute after Yemen failed to deal with a cross from Yaghoob Barajeh, leaving the Iran No 16 to head home past a rooted\u00a0Mokref, the-afc.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen fell further behind in the 42nd minute after Esmaeil Gholizadeh pounced on a poor pass from Ahmed Al Hajj before slotting the ball into the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen conceded the fourth following Mohammed Moqbel\u2019s own goal, leaving the West Asian side on the ropes going into the break.<\/p>\n<p>Iran stretched their lead a minute after the restart when Abbas Kahrizi sent a perfect cross for Ghandipour to nod home.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen suffered further agony,\u00a0conceding again in the 72nd minute after Nima Andarz supplied a cross for Abolfazl Zoleikhaei to finish with a close-range diving header.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kgnSPTsP23o\"><strong>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong> <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran closed in on a place in the knockout stage of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":52857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u20","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":1178,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856","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=52856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52859,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52856\/revisions\/52859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}