{"id":52896,"date":"2025-02-19T21:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T05:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52896"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:13:35","slug":"iran-victorious-over-uzbekistan-in-2025-afc-u20-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/02\/19\/iran-victorious-over-uzbekistan-in-2025-afc-u20-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran victorious over Uzbekistan in 2025 AFC U20 Asian Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran beat Uzbekistan 2-1 in their final AFC U20 Asian Cup China 2025 Group C tie at the Shenzhen Youth Football Training Base Pitch 1 on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, in winning all three group matches, will meet the runners-up of Group D in the quarter-finals while defending champions Uzbekistan will play the top team.<\/p>\n<p>With both teams having already qualified prior to their clash, Uzbekistan started without striker Muhammadali Urinboev while Iran kept Esteghlal midfielder Abolfazl Zamani, who scored a brace in their 6-0 win over Yemen, on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Yousef Mazraeh was on target for Iran in the 52nd minute and Esmaeil Gholizadeh made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 64th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Urinboev made his appearance in the 69th minute, and made his presence felt 10 minutes later when half-volleyed the ball from the center of the box past a diving Arsha Shakouri to pull one back for Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=REZiuCXnf54\"><strong>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran beat Uzbekistan 2-1 in their final AFC U20 Asian Cup China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":52897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u20","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":1331,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896","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=52896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52903,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896\/revisions\/52903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}