{"id":25152,"date":"2025-02-13T20:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-outplay-indonesia-at-2025-afc-u20-asian-cup-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:33:50","slug":"iran-outplay-indonesia-at-2025-afc-u20-asian-cup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-outplay-indonesia-at-2025-afc-u20-asian-cup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran outplay Indonesia at 2025 AFC U20 Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5378233.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Goals from Hesam Nafari, Esmaeil Gholizadeh and Mobin Dehghan placed the four-time champions in pole position with Uzbekistan, who beat Yemen 1-0 in the opening Group C match earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Iran piled on the pressure from the first blow of the referee\u2019s whistle and received dividends in the fifth minute when the ball bounced off defender Nafari in a packed penalty box and into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Iran found their second in the 63rd minute courtesy of Esmaeil Gholizadeh, who unleashed a spectacular volley from a floating Nima Andarz cross that flew past a diving Zidan.<\/p>\n<p>Gholizadeh corner in the 70th minute saw midfielder Dehghan out-jumping the Indonesian defence to head home Iran\u2019s third from close quarters. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Iran will look for their second win when they meet Yemen on Matchday 2 while Indonesia will take on Uzbekistan, with both ties to be contested on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228298\/Iran-outplay-Indonesia-at-2025-AFC-U20-Asian-Cup\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goals from Hesam Nafari, Esmaeil Gholizadeh and Mobin Dehghan placed the four-time champions in pole position with Uzbekistan, who beat Yemen 1-0 in the opening Group C match earlier. Iran piled on the pressure from the first blow of the referee\u2019s whistle and received dividends in the fifth minute when the ball bounced off defender &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}