{"id":54161,"date":"2025-11-26T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54161"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:40:24","slug":"esteghlal-al-wasl-share-spoils-in-2025-26-acl-two-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/11\/26\/esteghlal-al-wasl-share-spoils-in-2025-26-acl-two-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal, Al Wasl share spoils in 2025\/26 ACL Two [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Al Wasl earned a hard-fought 1-1 draw with Esteghlal on Wednesday to book their berth in the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League Two 2025\/26.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stalemate took the United Arab Emirates side to 11 points, confirming them as the Group A winners with a match to spare while Esteghlal will slug it out with Bahrain\u2019s Al Muharraq SC to determine who also advances.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal imposed themselves on the game early on, opening the scoring in the sixth minute after great work from Esmaeil Gholizadeh who dribbled along the goal-line only to see his initial attempt blocked by Khaled Aljneibi before sending the rebound to Saeid Saharkhizan for a tap-in.<\/p>\n<p>In the 63rd minute, Hugo Goncalves exchanged passes with Serginho before sweeping the ball into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>The goal woke Esteghlal up from their slumber but despite attempts from Jasir Asani and Hossein Goodarzi, they had to settle with a point.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BIG point at home! | Esteghlal \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 vs Al Wasl \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddea | Highlights | AFC Champions League Two\u2122\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okmlIMoJQ0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Al Wasl earned a hard-fought 1-1 draw with Esteghlal on Wednesday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":795,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54161","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54163,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54161\/revisions\/54163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}