The Philippines fell to Iraq anew, 5-0, within the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, in entrance of a crowd of greater than 10,000, on Tuesday on the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila.
The loss, the second below new head coach Tom Saintfiet, got here simply days after Iran eked out a 1-0 win in opposition to the nationwide males’s soccer staff in Basra.
The Iraqis dominated the nationals early within the match as Aymen Hussein made the primary purpose on the 14’ mark off a penalty. Amir Fouad then doubled Iraq’s lead on the thirtieth minute, adopted by one other Hussein purpose after seven minutes.
Iraq had the benefit at halftime, 3-0, earlier than one other purpose by Zidane Iqbal on the 62’ put the Iraqis at 4-0. The pounding for the Iraqis continued as Zaid Tahseen Hantoosh scored Iraq’s fifth purpose.
That is the Philippines’ fourth loss on this spherical of qualifiers following losses in opposition to Vietnam, Indonesia, and Iraq in Group F.
The nationals will subsequent play Vietnam and Indonesia in June for the ultimate window of this spherical.
Solely the highest two groups on the finish of the spherical will advance to the third spherical of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers and straight qualify to the 2027 Asian Cup.
—JMB, GMA Built-in Information