{"id":7023,"date":"2021-06-12T08:55:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2021-06-12T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T05:56:50","slug":"nepal-ends-world-cup-qualifiers-campaign-with-australia-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/06\/12\/nepal-ends-world-cup-qualifiers-campaign-with-australia-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal ends World Cup Qualifiers campaign with Australia defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong>: Ayush Ghalan, Kamal Thapa, and Suraj Jeu Thakuri made their debuts as Nepal lose 3-0 to Australia in the World Cup Asian Qualifiers match on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Jaber Al-Ahmad Stadium in Kuwait, Mathew Leckie, Fran Karacic and Martin Boyle scored for the Australian side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leckie scored the first with a header in the sixth minute before Karacic doubled the lead in the 38<sup>th<\/sup> minute. Nepal was down to 10 players in the final minutes of the first half when Rohit Chand was given a straight red for a foul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian side scored the third in the second half through Boyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We gave our best and tried to play on the counter. We didn&#8217;t try to play defensive and merits to the Australian team for their physical advantage,&#8221; said Nepal&#8217;s Head Coach Abdullah Almutairi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian head coach Graham Arnold praised the fighting mentality of the Nepali side. &#8220;They fought and fought and didn&#8217;t stop running. But we came here for a job and haven&#8217;t finished yet,&#8221; said Coach Arnold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepali team will now fly back home on June 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Ayush Ghalan, Kamal Thapa, and Suraj Jeu Thakuri made their debuts as Nepal lose 3-0 to Australia in the World Cup Asian Qualifiers match on Friday. At the Jaber Al-Ahmad Stadium in Kuwait, Mathew Leckie, Fran Karacic and Martin Boyle scored for the Australian side. Leckie scored the first with a header in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/news_1623437042.jpg?fit=1280%2C743&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-1Ph","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}