{"id":53639,"date":"2025-07-18T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53639"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:17:13","slug":"team-melli-womens-to-face-jordan-in-must-win-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/07\/18\/team-melli-womens-to-face-jordan-in-must-win-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli Women\u2019s to face Jordan in must-win match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AMMAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s women\u2019s national team will aim to secure its qualification when it faces Jordan in the final Group A match of the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup Australia 2026 Qualifiers on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With six points already on the board, Iran must defeat Jordan to keep its hopes alive of securing a second consecutive appearance at the continental tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The team enters the match coming off a challenging 3-1 defeat to Lebanon on Wednesday, a game in which Iran struggled to find its rhythm and trailed by two goals at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Marziyeh Jafari acknowledged that her team paid a heavy price for their mistakes but expressed optimism that Iran will bounce back against Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, the host nation, will approach the game with confidence after an impressive campaign that has seen them achieve three wins, score 12 goals, and concede none.<\/p>\n<p>The match is scheduled to be played at the King Abdullah II Stadium in Amman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AMMAN, Iran\u2019s women\u2019s national team will aim to secure its qualification when it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens"],"views":1259,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53639","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=53639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53641,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53639\/revisions\/53641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}