{"id":368319,"date":"2022-11-26T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=368319"},"modified":"2022-11-26T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:52:37","slug":"robert-page-appears-to-write-off-wales-round-of-16-hopes-after-defeat-to-iran-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/robert-page-appears-to-write-off-wales-round-of-16-hopes-after-defeat-to-iran-2","title":{"rendered":"Robert Page appears to write off Wales&#8217; round of 16 hopes after defeat to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wales are clinging on to a World Cup lifeline as they bid to reach the knockout stages &#8211; even though boss Robert Page appeared to write off their hopes after losing 2-0 to Iran. England&#8217;s goalless draw with the United States on Friday night means that Wales still have a path to the round of 16. Wales must beat England on Tuesday &#8211; something they have not achieved since 1984 &#8211; at Doha&#8217;s Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium and hope Iran and the United States draw their final group game. That would see Wales finish behind England and above Iran in second spot on goal difference, the first deciding factor for teams level on points at this World Cup. Beating England by anything less than a four-goal margin would not be enough for Wales should either Iran or USA win that final game. Wales, however, would finish above England and claim a round of 16 spot by beating Gareth Southgate&#8217;s side<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales are clinging on to a World Cup lifeline as they bid to reach the knockout stages &#8211; even though boss Robert Page appeared to write off their hopes after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}