{"id":6858,"date":"2019-01-06T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2019-01-06T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:36:23","slug":"asian-cup-uae-2019-uae-1-1-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/01\/06\/asian-cup-uae-2019-uae-1-1-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Cup UAE 2019: UAE 1-1 Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Asian Cup started dramatically as a last gasp Ahmed Khalil penalty ensured the UAE a share of the spoils as they drew 1-1 with Bahrain in their Group A opener today.<\/p>\n<p>With time running out, Khalil impressively converted from 12 yards for the 1996 AFC Asian Cup runners-up after Mohamed Al Rohaimi had given the guests the lead just 10 minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The draw, played out in front of 33,000 spectators at Abu Dhabi\u2019s Zayed Sports City Stadium, sees the regional rivals tied at the top of the Group A standings ahead of Sunday\u2019s match between fellow group hopefuls India and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>After a cautious opening, it was to be the UAE who threatened first. The hosts could have been ahead early on had Ismail Al Hamadi kept his cool when one-on-one with Sayed Shubbar Alawi, while Komail Alaswad went close with a dipping free-kick at the other end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Asian Cup started dramatically as a last gasp Ahmed Khalil penalty ensured the UAE a share of the spoils as they drew 1-1 with Bahrain in their Group A opener today. With time running out, Khalil impressively converted from 12 yards for the 1996 AFC Asian Cup runners-up after Mohamed Al Rohaimi had &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}