{"id":12129,"date":"2011-05-03T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/03\/piroozi-3-2-al-ittihad\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T03:02:20","slug":"piroozi-3-2-al-ittihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/03\/piroozi-3-2-al-ittihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Piroozi 3-2 Al Ittihad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HamidrezaAFC – TEHRAN, Piroozi’s chances of making it to the last 16 of the AFC Champions League ended despite their 3-2 victory over group leaders Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad on Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bunyodkor made it to the last 16 after Al Ittihad, who qualified earlier, with a 3-2 victory over UAE’s Al Wahda. <\/p>\n

Bunyodkor are now on eight points, two less than leaders Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ittihad. Piroozi are on five points with one match to go but the Uzbeks have ensured themselves a place in the Round of 16, thanks to their head-to-head record against Piroozi (0-0 at home and 3-1 win away).<\/p>\n

Hamidreza Aliasgari (pictured)<\/em> stuck in the 14th minute before a second goal from Shpejtim Arifi two minutes later was cancelled out by Mohammed Al Rashed’s firm header in the first-half.<\/p>\n

Aliasgari extended Piroozi’s lead in the 69th minute before the visitors pulled one back through a stoppage-time own goal from Sekou Berthe. <\/p>\n

Piroozi came close to taking the lead after four minutes through Arifi. The striker latched onto a cross from the right but could not force the ball home.<\/p>\n

Aliasgari then gave Piroozi a deserved lead in the 14th minute. <\/p>\n

Nuno Assis tackled the ball backwards into his side’s penalty box and Aliasgari pounced on it to fire home even though Mabrouk Zaid got his fingers to the ball.<\/p>\n

It took only two minutes for Arifi to extend the lead. <\/p>\n

Aliasgari was the provider this time as he collected a long pass from Maziar Zare and flicked it to the unmarked Arifi to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

The Saudi Arabian side pulled a goal back after 19 minutes as Al Rashed met Paulo Jorge’s free-kick from the right, powering home a header to halve the deficit. <\/p>\n

Arifi could have eased the pressure with a third just before the half-hour mark as Zaid punched Mohammad Nori\u2019s corner from the left straight into his path, but he fired wide.<\/p>\n

Nori then missed a chance of his own in first-half stoppage time as Piroozi pressed for a third.<\/p>\n

The game became cagier after the restart with chances at a premium.<\/p>\n

When an opportunity did come, Hossein Badamaki fired a left-footed effort wide of the post, and Mojtaba Shiri headed off target soon after.<\/p>\n

Piroozi grabbed a third in the 69th minute. Hadi Norouzi crossed low into the penalty area and after neither Arifi nor Assis could get a touch, the lively Aliasgari beat the Al Ittihad keeper to score.<\/p>\n

An own goal from Piroozi defender Berthe in added time was not enough for the visitors to prevent Piroozi from taking all three points. <\/p>\n

Assis curled a dangerous free-kick across the box and Berthe inadvertently headed into his own net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFC – TEHRAN, Piroozi’s chances of making it to the last 16 of the AFC…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4688,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","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=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}