{"id":11152,"date":"2010-04-13T21:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/13\/al-ahli-2-1-mes-kerman\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:24:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:24:50","slug":"al-ahli-2-1-mes-kerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/13\/al-ahli-2-1-mes-kerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Ahli 2-1 Mes Kerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"mes-kerman2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mes-kerman2.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"359\" \/>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>A late penalty from Ahmad Khalil saw Al Ahli claim their first win in  Group D of the AFC Champions League with a 2-1 triumph over Mes Kerman  at Al Rashid Stadium.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Ahmad scored the decisive goal in the 83rd minute when he  converted from the spot a Farzad Hoeesinkhani own goal had given the  hosts a first-half lead.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdi Rajabzadeh had equalised for Mes  in the 74th minute with a close-range finish before Ahmad Khalil&#8217;s late  intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Mes shot twice over the bar in the opening six  minutes as the game began at a slow pace<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahli keeper Abdulla  Yousif made a good save to deny Edinho (Eder Luciano) in the 10th minute  before Faisal Khalil tested Mes goalie Saman Safa with an angled shot  from the right side following a driving run eight minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad  Khalil saw Safa fail to collect his 30-yard free-kick but Faisal Khalil  squandered the rebound before the deadlock was broken in unfortunate  circumstances for the visitors when Hoeesinkhani deflected the ball into  the Mes net.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, Abdrabou Hosni\u2019s free-kick from  just outside the area skimmed the top of the bar as Al Ahli went in at  the break one goal to the good.<\/p>\n<p>Mes showed a renewed sense of  urgency after the interval and while Al Ahli were content to sit on  their one-goal lead, the Iranians pressed for an equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>Edinho  came close with a long-range shot which landed on the roof of the net  in the 54th minute and Rohollah Bigdeli fired over the crossbar eight  minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Khalil then missed a golden opportunity in  the 71st minute after being released by a sublime pass from Farej Khamis  but he rifled wide of the left post.<\/p>\n<p>Rajabzadeh, who scored a  brace in Mes&#8217; 4-2 win over the same opponents in Iran, then squared the  contest three minutes later with a close-range finish from Milad  Fakhroddin&#8217;s cross, with the substitute managing to deliver into the box  despite slipping at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>However, Al Ahli were not to  be denied as Saad Surour was brought down in the box seven minutes from  the end as he tried to weave his way through a horde of defenders. <\/p>\n<p>Ahmad  Khalil made no mistake with the resultant penalty, finding the top left  corner and sending Safa the wrong way to upset the visitors and seal  the UAE side&#8217;s first win of their 2010 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, A late penalty from Ahmad Khalil saw Al Ahli claim their first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4301,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}