{"id":323488,"date":"2024-01-13T09:54:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T06:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=323488"},"modified":"2024-01-13T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T07:26:56","slug":"qatar-beats-lebanon-3-0-in-the-opening-of-asian-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=323488","title":{"rendered":"Qatar beats Lebanon 3-0 in the opening of Asian Cup Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doha, SANA-Asian Cup hosts Qatar kickstarted their title defence with a 3-0 win over Lebanon in the tournament opener on Friday with a brace from their prized playmaker Akram Afif and a goal from Almoez Ali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beinsports said that Qatar had an early goal ruled out for offside but after a period of dominance, Afif finally broke the deadlock on the stroke of halftime when he pounced on a lay-off by Ali in the box to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ali, top scorer in the 2019 edition, then doubled the lead in the 56th minute when he headed home Mohammed Waad&#8217;s inviting cross from the left flank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lebanon had their moments on the counter-attack to give their travelling fans some hope, but Qatar held firm to deny their Middle Eastern counterparts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afif sealed the victory in stoppage time when he pounced on a botched clearance and easily accelerated past a tiring Lebanon defence before applying a calm finish to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doha, SANA-Asian Cup hosts Qatar kickstarted their title defence with a 3-0 win over Lebanon in the tournament opener on Friday with a brace from their prized playmaker Akram Afif and a goal from Almoez Ali. Beinsports said that Qatar had an early goal ruled out for offside but after a period of dominance, Afif &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":323489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-bar","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323490,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323488\/revisions\/323490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}