{"id":55295,"date":"2026-09-06T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55295"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:47:02","slug":"iran-defeat-vietnam-at-afc-u20-asian-cup-2027-qualifier-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/09\/06\/iran-defeat-vietnam-at-afc-u20-asian-cup-2027-qualifier-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defeat Vietnam at AFC U20 Asian Cup 2027 qualifier [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; VIET TRI, <strong>Iran finished runners-up in Group C of the AFC U20 Asian Cup China 2027 Qualifiers after coming from behind to defeat hosts Vietnam 3-1 on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vietnam took the lead in the 41st minute when Nguyen Quoc Khanh was played through on goal by Dau Hong Phong before beating Iran goalkeeper Amimahdi Maghsoudi with a shot at the near post.<\/p>\n<p>Iran responded five minutes after the restart. A long throw from Amirmohammad Karimi caused confusion in the Vietnamese penalty area, and Arian Maali pounced to level the score after the hosts failed to clear the danger.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors completed their comeback in the 63rd minute when Mahan Beheshti calmly converted a penalty to put Iran 2-1 ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Iran then sealed the victory deep into stoppage time, with Abolfazl Zadeh Attar making no mistake from the spot in the 95th minute to complete the 3-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>The result saw Iran finish second in Group C, while Vietnam were beaten on home soil despite taking an early lead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IRAN - VI\u1ec6T NAM: KH\u00d4NG TH\u1ec2 T\u1ea0O N\u00caN B\u1ea4T NG\u1edc | V\u00d2NG LO\u1ea0I U20 CH\u00c2U \u00c1 2027\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1J9vxiAwT_c?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>Tehran Times &#8211; VIET TRI, Iran finished runners-up in Group C of the AFC U20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,169,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u20","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":94,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55295","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=55295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55297,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55295\/revisions\/55297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}