{"id":12017,"date":"2011-03-15T21:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/15\/sepahan-5-1-al-jazira\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T04:26:39","slug":"sepahan-5-1-al-jazira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/15\/sepahan-5-1-al-jazira\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan 5-1 Al Jazira [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"sepahan-win2223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sepahan-win2223.jpg\" height=\"281\" width=\"404\" \/>AFC &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>Sepahan made it two wins from as many games to start their AFC Champions  League campaign with a comfortable home win over Al Jazira. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Jamshidian scored a first-half double and while Al Jazira  striker Bare (Jader Volnei Spindler) pulled a goal back shortly after  the break, further strikes from Ibrahim Toure, Janjus Milorad and Javad  Kazemian ensured an easy win.<\/p>\n<p>It was no more than the Iranians  deserved and sent them clear at the top of Group A having already  overcome Saudi Arabian heavyweights Al Hilal on their own turf last time  out.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan forged ahead after just three minutes when Omid  Ebrahimi crossed the ball from the right and Jamshidian headed home  despite the attention of a couple of the visiting defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan  completely controlled the game throughout and they doubled their  advantage in the 24th minute when Jamshidian\u2019s strong shot found the  back of the net. <\/p>\n<p>Four minutes later Al Jazira could have pulled a  goal back only for Sepahan goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati to stretch himself  and claw away Ricardo Olivieira\u2019s shot from a tight angle.<\/p>\n<p>It was  a rare chance for the UAE club as they were forced to call on all their  defensive resolve to keep the score at 2-0 going into half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan  quickly re-established their attacking threat in the second period  although Rahmati had to make a sharp save to deny a powerful effort from  Subait Khater.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazira did pull a goal back on 53 minutes when  former Gamba Oasaka striker Bare met a left-sided cross from Saleh  Obaid to keep his side\u2019s hopes alive. <\/p>\n<p>However, Sepahan restored  their two-goal cushion just two minutes later with Jamshidian this time  the architect as he teed up Toure to score with a long searching pass.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan  were back in control and had a fourth goal in the 64th minute when the  Al Jazira defence could only re-direct a probing Toure pass into the  path of Milorad and the Serbian striker swept home with his right foot.<\/p>\n<p>With  time ticking down the hosts added a fifth goal when Kazemian ran onto a  long pass from Reza Enayati before side-stepping the away goalkeeper  and tapping in.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4ByOY8g41I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4ByOY8g41I<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ESFAHAN, Sepahan made it two wins from as many games to start their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3990,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017","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=12017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}