Cambodia edged out Afghanistan with a 1-0 victory to achieve their first win of the 2019 Asian Cup qualification campaign.<\/p>\n
Playing at the National Olympic Stadium, the visitors made a fast start to the contest through a series of attacks. After Norollah Amiri failed to find the target with a header from Faysal Shayesteh, Shayesteh should have opened the scoring for Afghanistan but was unable to find the target from a promising position.<\/p>\n
Despite the overwhelming attack by the Afghans, Cambodia still found a breakthrough as Ovays Azizi\u2019s attempted eventual clearance crashed into the back of Mony Udom and the goal was scored for Kouprey Blue in the 60th minute.<\/p>\n
During the remaining time, the Leonardo Vitorino<\/a>‘s side tightened up their defense and denied a number of attempts from the Afghans.<\/p>\n The all-important victory helps Cambodia to leapfrog Vietnam to the second place in Group C with three points, just one fewer than Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cambodia edged out Afghanistan with a 1-0 victory to achieve their first win of the 2019 Asian Cup qualification campaign. Playing at the National Olympic Stadium, the visitors made a fast start to the contest through a series of attacks. After Norollah Amiri failed to find the target with a header from Faysal Shayesteh, Shayesteh should have opened the scoring for Afghanistan but was unable to find the target from a promising position. Despite the overwhelming attack by the Afghans, Cambodia still found a breakthrough as Ovays Azizi\u2019s attempted eventual clearance crashed into the back of Mony Udom and the goal was scored for Kouprey Blue in the 60th minute. … Continue reading “Cambodia edge out Afghanistan with 1-0 victory”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[858,26],"tags":[109,285,254,204],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cambodia","category-southeast-asia","tag-afc-asian-cup","tag-afghanistan","tag-cambodia","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}