{"id":39828,"date":"2018-08-21T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=39828"},"modified":"2018-08-21T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:32:44","slug":"india-u-16-football-team-go-down-fighting-1-2-to-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/india-u-16-football-team-go-down-fighting-1-2-to-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"India U-16 football team go down fighting 1-2 to Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian U-16 football team went down fighting 1-2 to Oman in a friendly fixture in Turkey today.<\/p>\n<p>Oman scored on either side of the half-time, while Vikram reducing the margin by scoring from the penalty spot in the added time of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of the match was mostly played at the middle of the pitch before Shabas put in a brilliant cross but Rohit couldn\u2019t convert it.<\/p>\n<p>Oman took the lead three minutes to the half-time whistle, before doubling the advantage in the 55th minute to put themselves in a comfortable position.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Bibiano Fernandes rang in a few changes to find the back of the net but Oman stood tall to thwart their efforts until the final minute of the regulation time.<\/p>\n<p>Vikram was brought down in the box in the 89th minute and the skipper slotted in the spot-kick to halve the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Although India pushed hard to find the equaliser towards the end, Oman held on their nerves to win the match eventually.<\/p>\n<p>India had recently finished at the second spot in the WAFF U-16 Championship after beating defending AFC U16 Champions Iraq, Jordan and Yemen.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian U-16 football team went down fighting 1-2 to Oman in a friendly fixture in Turkey today. Oman scored on either side of the half-time, while Vikram reducing the margin by scoring from the penalty spot in the added time of the match. The first half of the match was mostly played at the middle [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39830,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39828\/revisions\/39830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}