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The road to Qatar 2022 in Asia is coming to a crucial juncture as Round 2 nears its conclusion. The eight group winners and four best runners-up will move on to Round 3.<\/p>\n
Among the 13 matches on 7 June, IR Iran and Bahrain’s meeting in Group C will have big implications for how that group will ultimately end up. A victory for Russia 2018 participants IR Iran will see them draw level on points with current group leaders Bahrain and with a game in hand. FIFA.com<\/strong> will have you covered with all the latest.<\/p>\n Kyrgyz Republic-Mongolia<\/a> Read more at FIFA.com News<\/a> Round 2 of Asia World Cup qualifiers reaches crucial stage Eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the third round IR Iran-Bahrain, United Arab Emirates-Thailand among the standout games The road to Qatar 2022 in Asia is coming to a crucial juncture as Round 2 nears its conclusion. The eight group winners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.fifa.com\/image\/upload\/t_l1\/wkf6rt0yku3bvmomwrqh.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4368,679,2481,2480,4248,371,30,155,120,80,188],"class_list":["post-41920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-cup","tag-asian","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2018","tag-fifa-world-cup-russia-2018","tag-follow","tag-football-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.fifa.com\/image\/upload\/t_l1\/wkf6rt0yku3bvmomwrqh.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fixtures (All matches<\/a>)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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