{"id":13178,"date":"2012-10-02T19:26:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T02:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/02\/ten-men-sepahan-bow-out-of-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T19:26:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T02:26:54","slug":"ten-men-sepahan-bow-out-of-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/02\/ten-men-sepahan-bow-out-of-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten men Sepahan bow out of Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"acl_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/acl_logo.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>PFDC &#8211; JEDDAH, <strong>A ridiculous first half red card for Sepahan&#8217;s goalkeeper paved the way for a bitter quarterfinal exit for Sepahan, who lost 1-4 to Al Ahli after a goalless tie in the first leg.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan continued the impressive performance from Esfahan and created numerous good chances, the first and best already coming in the opening minute when Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari found himself one on one with the goalkeeper, but saw his effort denied by the keeper&#8217;s foot. <\/p>\n<p>However, the decisive scene of the game occured after 27 minutes when Sepahan&#8217;s offside trap was beaten and goalkeeper Reza Mohammadi&#8217;s challenge to the striker was slightly late, with the Saudi Arabian more jumping over the keeper than actually being hit though. <\/p>\n<p>The following penalty call was nevertheless an acceptable decision, but the red card for Mohammadi shown by the Australian referee Peter Green was plainly a present to the homeside. <\/p>\n<p>Simoes converted the penalty against reserve keeper Mohammad Bagher Sadeghi and short time later a second goal followed, unfortunately after an unspotted foul by a Saudi attacker, who had clearly pushed down his marker during his header. <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan pulled one back after a Hassan Ashjari freekick and a deflected Farshid Talebi effort, but only moments before halftime a blunder by Sadeghi allowed Al Ahli to restore the two-goal&nbsp; lead. <\/p>\n<p>The chanceless Iranians then conceded a final goal in second half to sadly bow out of the competition, despite having been the better team in the first leg and until the unjustified expulsion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; JEDDAH, A ridiculous first half red card for Sepahan&#8217;s goalkeeper paved the way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3617,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}