{"id":11432,"date":"2022-03-24T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=206707"},"modified":"2022-03-24T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:24:11","slug":"japan-saudi-arabia-progress-for-qatar-world-cup-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/japan-saudi-arabia-progress-for-qatar-world-cup-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Saudi Arabia progress for Qatar World Cup 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following Japan\u2019s 2-0 win over Australia in Sydney on Thursday, Saudi Arabia qualified for the 2022 World Cup without even playing a game.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kaoru Mitoma\u2019s two late goals not only earned Japan a well-deserved win after a thrilling match, but they also put them in first place in Group B with 21 points, two above the Green Falcons, who face China later today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Japan qualified for the World Cup for the seventh time in a row after defeating Australia 2-0 in Sydney on Thursday, destroying the Socceroos\u2019 aspirations of automatic entry.\u00a0<\/span>Australia will now face the third-placed side from another Asian qualifying group in a play-off for the opportunity to face the fifth-ranked South American team for a spot in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Teams that have qualified for the Qatar World Cup 2020 are : <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Qatar, Germany, Denmark, Brazil, Serbia, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia, Switzerland, England, Argentina, Iran, South Korea, Japan,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan beat Australia 2-0 thanks to Kaoru Mitoma\u2019s two goals in the final minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3250,3249],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-qatar-world-cup-2022","tag-saudi-arabia-fc"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}