{"id":12023,"date":"2011-03-16T20:25:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/16\/al-shabab-0-0-zob-ahan\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T20:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:25:19","slug":"al-shabab-0-0-zob-ahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/16\/al-shabab-0-0-zob-ahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Shabab 0-0 Zob Ahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"zob54jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/zob54jpg.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"320\" \/>AFC &#8211; RIYADH, <strong>Al Shabab and Zob Ahan settled for a point apiece as the two sides  played out a goalless draw in their 2011 AFC Champions League encounter  at Prince Faisal Bin Fahd International Stadium on Wednesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a game that was mostly devoid of any genuine chances, both  sides were repeatedly let down by a lack of quality and invention in the  final third.<\/p>\n<p>The result means Zob Ahan now top Group D on four  points, one ahead of Emirates after the latter overcame Al Rayyan 2-0 at  home. Al Shabab, meanwhile, now have two points from their opening two  games.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s AFC Champions League finalists almost began in  explosive fashion as Mohammmad Reza Khaletbari saw a spectacular  overhead kick from the edge of the box whistle just past Waleed  Abdullah&#8217;s post as the keeper struggled to make up the ground with just  two minutes on the clock<\/p>\n<p>Ghasem Hadadifar then drew a fine save  out of the Al Shabab keeper when his dipping strike was turned over by  Abdullah at full stretch after quarter of an hour. Hossein Mahini then  headed a diagonal ball delivered deep from the right flank just over the  bar three minutes later as the Iranians made all the early running.<\/p>\n<p>It  took 27 minutes for Al Shabab to have their first shot on goal when  Abdulaziz Saran fired well wide from a tight angle and the sides went in  at the break level.<\/p>\n<p>The second period followed much the same  pattern as the first with Zob Ahan enjoying the better of what little  attacking play there was.<\/p>\n<p>Seyed Hosseini saw a neat back-header  from a free-kick on the left narrowly clear the crossbar in the 63rd  minute and two minutes later, Igor Castro spurned a good opening when he  directed a powerful header from eight yards out down into the turf and  Abdullah was able to claw the ball away.<\/p>\n<p>Al Shabab substitute  Alhassane Keita tested Shahab Gordan with a shot from range that the Zob  Ahan keeper collected at the second attempt in the 80th minute before  skipper Marcelo Taveres saw a powerful header flash the wrong side of  the Zob Ahan keeper&#8217;s near post with five minutes remaining as both  sides settled for the draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; RIYADH, Al Shabab and Zob Ahan settled for a point apiece as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3114,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023","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=12023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}