{"id":29060,"date":"2017-09-12T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29060"},"modified":"2017-09-12T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:04:57","slug":"afc-champions-league-late-penalties-take-persepolis-past-al-ahli-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/12\/afc-champions-league-late-penalties-take-persepolis-past-al-ahli-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Champions League: Late penalties take Persepolis past Al Ahli [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC \u2013 Abu Dhabi,\u00a0 Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Persepolis will face Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal in the 2017 AFC Champions League semi-finals after beating Al Ahli 3-1 (5-3 on aggregate) at Mohamed bin Zayed Stadium in the quarter-final second leg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Two late penalties gave Persepolis the victory as the Iranians showed great spirit, as they had done in their first-leg two-goal comeback, in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis got off to a flyer as Ali Alipour latched onto a long pass, outmuscling his marker before applying a placed finish into the bottom corner to give his side the lead five minutes into the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians\u2019 fortunes suffered a blow when midfielder Kamal Kamyabinia received a straight red card after a challenge on Waleed Bakshwan in the 12th\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahli capitalised on their one-man advantage and grabbed an equaliser when winger Saleh Al Amri curled one in from the edge of the area in the 52nd\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n<p>With the 1-1 result favouring Al Ahli on away goals, Persepolis piled the pressure in pursuit of a winner and Al Ahli\u2019s defense cracked under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>First Al Ahli captain Motaz Hawsawi handled the ball in an attempt to clear off his line and the referee awarded a penalty for Persepolis and sent Hawsawi off.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Godwin Mensha converted the penalty-kick to restore Persepolis\u2019 lead and Mahdi Taremi added a second from the spot in added time to put the win beyond doubt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s0C01RgD5x8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC \u2013 Abu Dhabi,\u00a0 Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Persepolis will face Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":5938,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}