{"id":36599,"date":"2024-11-20T03:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=36599"},"modified":"2024-11-20T03:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:51:37","slug":"world-cup-qualifiers-iraq-beats-oman-and-boosts-its-chances-of-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/world-cup-qualifiers-iraq-beats-oman-and-boosts-its-chances-of-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Qualifiers: Iraq Beats Oman and Boosts Its Chances of Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Iraq won 1-0 against host Oman in the sixth round of Group B in the third round of the 2026 AFC World Cup qualifiers, held at Sultan Qaboos Stadium in Muscat on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Iraq moved up to second place with 11 points from 6 matches, 3 points behind South Korea, who had previously drawn 1-1 with Palestine, and 3 points ahead of Jordan in third place, who have only played 5 matches.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Oman&#8217;s points remained at 6, placing them in fourth position.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the first half, Iraq dominated the match, with striker Ayman Hussein scoring in the 15th minute, but the goal was disallowed for offside.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Iraq scored the winning goal in the 36th minute after a precise low cross from Ahmed Yassin, which Yusuf Amin finished by placing the ball to the right of Omani goalkeeper Ibrahim Al-Mukhaini. The goalkeeper managed to touch the ball but couldn\u2019t stop it from going into the net.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Al-Mukhaini was replaced by Fayez Al-Rasheedi at the start of the second half.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Jordan will later play as guests of the Kuwaiti national team.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq won 1-0 against host Oman in the sixth round of Group B in the third round of the 2026 AFC World Cup qualifiers, held at Sultan Qaboos Stadium in Muscat on Tuesday. Iraq moved up to second place with 11 points from 6 matches, 3 points behind South Korea, who had previously drawn 1-1 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36600,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions\/36600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}