{"id":12734,"date":"2012-02-10T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/10\/esteghlal-down-zob-ahan-in-champions-league-playoff\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:29:32","slug":"esteghlal-down-zob-ahan-in-champions-league-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/10\/esteghlal-down-zob-ahan-in-champions-league-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal down Zob Ahan in ACL playoff [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soccerway.com\/news\/2012\/February\/10\/afc-champions-league-esteghlal-2-zob-ahan-0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/acl\/2012\/po\/3x2_este_zobahan_gfx.jpg\" height=\"215\" width=\"322\" \/>Soccerway.com<\/a> &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal have won their all-Iranian AFC Champions League playoff tie against Zob Ahan 2-0 at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal went ahead through Khosro Heydari on 24 minutes despite being without key midfield duo Andranik Teymourian and Mojtaba Jabbari.<\/p>\n<p>Top goalscorer Jabbari was sidelined with a knee complaint but on-loan Cardiff defender Jlloyd Samuel came into the starting XI and the home side were in total command.<\/p>\n<p>Arash Borhani doubled Esteghlal&#8217;s lead in the 67th minute and sealed their passage through to the second round of the playoffs where they will meet Saudi Arabian side Al Ettifaq.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan were seeking a third consecutive appearance in the competition after making the quarter-finals last year and finishing runners-up in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal now face Al Ettifaq for a place in Group A alongside Qatar&#8217;s Al Rayyan, Al Jazira of the United Arab Emirates and 2011 AFC Cup winners Nasaf from Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the extended highlights from <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">PFDC TV<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wrytn9K5cdQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wrytn9K5cdQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccerway.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal have won their all-Iranian AFC Champions League playoff tie against Zob&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3483,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}