{"id":7303,"date":"2017-10-11T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=7303"},"modified":"2017-10-11T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T11:25:22","slug":"australia-end-syrias-fairytale-run-in-world-cup-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/australia-end-syrias-fairytale-run-in-world-cup-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia end Syria\u2019s fairytale run in World Cup qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney<br \/>\nVeteran striker Tim Cahill scored deep into extra time to take Australia a big step closer to next year\u2019s World Cup and end war-torn Syria\u2019s fairytale run in the play-offs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cahill, 37, cancelled out Omar al-Soma\u2019s opener in the first half before he leapt to head Australia\u2019s precious second goal in the 109th minute for a 2-1 win in the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>After last week\u2019s 1-1 draw in Malaysia, Australia won 3-2 on aggregate to reach a final play-off against the fourth- placed team from the CONCACAF federation, currently Panama.<\/p>\n<p>Syria have never reached the World Cup and their hopes suffered a massive blow when Mahmoud al-Mawas was sent off for a second bookable offence in the fourth minute of extra time.<\/p>\n<p>As penalties beckoned, Robbie Kruse sent over a cross from the byline and Cahill out-jumped his marker to power a header past the diving Ibrahim Alma.<\/p>\n<p>There was huge drama in the dying seconds, when Soma juddered the right post with a vicious free kick. But Australia survived to stay on track for their fourth straight World Cup.<\/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>Sydney Veteran striker Tim Cahill scored deep into extra time to take Australia a big step closer to next year\u2019s World Cup and end war-torn Syria\u2019s fairytale run in the play-offs on Tuesday. Cahill, 37, cancelled out Omar al-Soma\u2019s opener in the first half before he leapt to head Australia\u2019s precious second goal in the [&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":7304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7303","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\/7303","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=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}