{"id":53808,"date":"2025-09-09T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53808"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:59:51","slug":"10-man-iran-runners-up-at-2025-cafa-nations-cup-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/09\/09\/10-man-iran-runners-up-at-2025-cafa-nations-cup-video\/","title":{"rendered":"10-man Iran runners-up at 2025 CAFA Nations Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran conceded a late goal to Uzbekistan in the final match of the 2025 CAFA Nations Cup on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xojiakbar Alijonov scored the sole goal of the match in the 120th minute at the Olympic City Stadium in Tashkent. Eldor Shomurodov had missed a penalty in the 105th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Arya Yousefi was shown a red card just five minutes into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, India defeated Oman 3-2 in a penalty shootout after the match ended 1-1 in regular time.<\/p>\n<p>Iran began the campaign in Group B with a 3-1 win over Afghanistan and then defeated India 3-0. Team Melli were held to a 2-2 draw against Tajikistan but topped the group, earning a berth in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had won the inaugural CAFA Nations Cup two years ago, edging past Uzbekistan 1-0 in the final.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran vs Uzbekistan | All Goals &amp; Highlights | CAFA Nations Cup Final 8-9-2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EFgXUKWStu0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran conceded a late goal to Uzbekistan in the final match of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":53809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1240,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53808","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=53808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53810,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53808\/revisions\/53810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}