{"id":394878,"date":"2022-11-29T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394878"},"modified":"2022-11-30T04:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T09:49:43","slug":"pulisic-fires-usa-into-last-16-after-1-0-win-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pulisic-fires-usa-into-last-16-after-1-0-win-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulisic fires USA into last 16 after 1-0 win over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".2197gqpx7m2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".2197gqpx7m2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Chelsea striker Christian Pulisic Iran scored seven minutes before half-time as the United States beat Iran 1-0 on Tuesday in an entertaining Group B decider to storm into the last 16 of the World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">USA are through to the knockouts! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1597697661267841024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2197gqpx7m2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<div class=\"article-body__content__17Yit paywall-article\">\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Needing a win to reach the knockout stages, the Americans were relentless in attack in a high-tempo game and broke the deadlock when Sergino Dest\u2019s precise header found Pulisic, who collided with Iran goalkeeper <span data-reactid=\".2197gqpx7m2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Alireza Beiranvand<\/span>as he bundled the ball in and was too injured to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><span data-reactid=\".2197gqpx7m2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">The Iranians came close after the interval &#8211; Brentford&#8217;s Saman Ghoddos came off the bench to strike inches over the bar when he was unmarked in the box, before Saeid Ezatolahi also curled over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><span data-reactid=\".2197gqpx7m2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">Their golden opportunity perhaps came deep in stoppage time, when Morteza Pouraliganji met a free-kick with a diving header that went just wide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><span data-reactid=\".2197gqpx7m2.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">There was still time for controversy as Mehdi Taremi appealed for a penalty as he went down with Cameron Carter-Vickers trying to stop him, but their appeals were rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">England, who defeated Wales 3-0 on Tuesday night finished top in Group B with 7 points, followed by the United States on five.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your final Group B standings \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@USMNT<\/a> join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/England?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@England<\/a> in the knockout stages \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1597700674288029698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\">The meeting between the United States and Iran &#8211; two diplomatic adversaries, was the first at a World Cup since the 1998 tournament in France.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea striker Christian Pulisic Iran scored seven minutes before half-time as the United States beat Iran 1-0 on Tuesday in an entertaining Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394879,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16889,16984],"news_category":[16671,14235,14236,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The United States will face the Netherlands for a place in the quarter-finals","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394878"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394878"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}