TEHRAN, October 12,2011 - Iran consolidated their position at the top of Group E in the third round of Asian qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup with a 6-0 battering of Bahrain, who played with ten men for almost the entire match.
Jalal Hosseini broke the deadlock in the 22nd minute before Mojtaba Jabari added to the opener with Iran's second 12 minutes later.
Iranian national footbal team took a three-goal cushion into the break when Hadi Aghili, scored his second of the qualifiers with three minutes
of the first-half left to play.
Andranik Timotian made it 4-0 in the 62nd minute before Karim Ansarifard weighed in with Iran's fifth with quarter-of-an-hour remaining.
But the scoring didn't stop there as Gholamreza Rezaei got his name on the score sheet in the 83rd minute to completed the emphatic win for Carlos
Quieroz's side, who top the table at the halfway stage of the qualifiers with seven points, two more than Qatar who notched up their first win of the competition with an impressive 3-2 win in Indonesia in Tuesday's other Group E fixture.
