BEIJING: Bahrain and Iran are battling exhaustion and bitter disappointment as they try to pick themselves up for a crack at the wooden spoon in the third place Asian Cup play-off game here today.
Both teams came desperately close to making the showpiece final but have instead had to settle for the altogether lower key event at Beijing's Workers' Stadium.
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