{"id":12755,"date":"2012-02-18T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/18\/esteghlal-advances-in-afc-champions-league-video\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:47:56","slug":"esteghlal-advances-in-afc-champions-league-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/18\/esteghlal-advances-in-afc-champions-league-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal advances in AFC Champions League [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_feb02_19_13-1.jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal eased past Al-Ettifaq of Saudi Arabia in an AFC Champions League playoff match on Saturday.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Iranian team defeated Al-Ettifaq 3-1 at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in front of about 60,000 spectators. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Esteghlal\u2019s Serbian striker Goran Jerkovic opened the scoring in the 37th minute, but Yousef al-Salem silenced the stadium with an equalizer on the hour mark.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>However, two minutes later, Khosro Heydari gave Esteghlal the lead once again and Arash Borhani made it 3-1 in the 65th minute. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Esteghlal joins Qatar&#8217;s Al Rayyan, Uzbekistan&#8217;s Nasaf, and the UAE&#8217;s Al Jazira in Group A of the ACL Champions League group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the goals from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>PFDCTV<\/strong><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"guid=PyUrcCzh&amp;isDynamicSeeking=true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"direct\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/s0.videopress.com\/player.swf?v=1.03\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/s0.videopress.com\/player.swf?v=1.03\" flashvars=\"guid=PyUrcCzh&amp;isDynamicSeeking=true\" wmode=\"direct\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal eased past Al-Ettifaq of Saudi Arabia in an AFC Champions&#8230;<\/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-12755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4176,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755","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=12755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}