Syria’s hopes of reaching the 2018 World Cup is over after Tim Cahill’s extra-time header saw Australia progress 3-2 on aggregate to the final qualifying tie.<\/p>\n
The Melbourne City star cancelled out Omar al-Soma’s opener in the first half before he leapt to head Socceroos’ precious second goal in the 109th minute for a 2-1 win in the second leg at ANZ Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Syria, who drew 1-1 in the first leg, had a man sent off early in extra time following Mahmoud Al Mawas’ for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n
“I knew I was going to score, I didn’t touch the ball much but in the end I delivered,” said Cahill as it was quoted by ABC News<\/em> after the game.<\/p>\n It was the closest place in history for Syria to World Cup finals and their impressive performances during the qualifying campaign gained massive respects and praises.<\/p>\n They had to play all their ‘home’ qualifiers in Malaysia because of the security situation in their war-torn nation and still managed great results.<\/p>\n Australia will now play either Panama, Honduras or the United States from the CONCACAF zone for a place in the final stage in Russia next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Syria’s hopes of reaching the 2018 World Cup is over after Tim Cahill’s extra-time header saw Australia progress 3-2 on aggregate to the final qualifying tie. The Melbourne City star cancelled out Omar al-Soma’s opener in the first half before he leapt to head Socceroos’ precious second goal in the 109th minute for a 2-1 win in the second leg at ANZ Stadium on Tuesday. Syria, who drew 1-1 in the first leg, had a man sent off early in extra time following Mahmoud Al Mawas’ for a second bookable offence. “I knew I was going to score, I didn’t touch the ball much but in the end I delivered,” … Continue reading “World Cup dream ends for war-torn Syria”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,46,50,27],"tags":[637,110,95,581],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-australia","category-fifa-world-cup","category-west-asia","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-australia","tag-slider","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","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=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}