{"id":4017,"date":"2024-02-08T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2024-02-08T05:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:00:27","slug":"qatar-had-a-chance-to-defend-their-title-of-the-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"Qatar had a chance to defend their title of the Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>8 February 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar defeated Iran 2-3 to advance to the final of the Asian Cup title defense. Abdullah&#8217;s winning goal in the 82nd minute gave Qatar a 3-2 win. Asian Cup hosts Qatar will play Jordan in the final at the Lusail Stadium next Saturday. Jordan advanced to the final with a stunning win over South Korea on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In last night&#8217;s game, Iran unexpectedly took the lead over Qatar in the 4th minute of the game with Azmon&#8217;s beautiful overhead goal. But in the first half, Abdul Sam and Affitt scored a goal to equalize for Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran scored an equalizer in the 51st minute of the second half with Jahanbesh&#8217;s penalty goal. But in the 82nd minute of the game, Abdullah scored the winning goal for Qatar. Iran&#8217;s Khalid Zadi was sent off in the 93rd minute of extra time. Qatar, the current champion in the final of the Asian Cup, has a chance to become the first two-time champion since Japan in 2000 and 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/525941_0-1024x698.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/525941_0-1024x698.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/525941_0-300x204.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/525941_0-768x523.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/525941_0-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/525941_0.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1992944395-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1992944395-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1992944395-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1992944395-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1992944395-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1992944395.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 February 2024 Qatar defeated Iran 2-3 to advance to the final of the Asian Cup title defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}