{"id":12788,"date":"2012-03-06T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T02:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/06\/esteghlal-hits-late-goal-to-defeat-al-rayyan-in-acl\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T02:46:48","slug":"esteghlal-hits-late-goal-to-defeat-al-rayyan-in-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/06\/esteghlal-hits-late-goal-to-defeat-al-rayyan-in-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal hits late goal to defeat Al Rayyan in ACL [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_mar02_07_13-1-1.jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran\u2019s Esteghlal defeated Al Rayyan of Qatar 1-0 thanks to a late goal by Goran Jerkovic in the 2012 Asian Champions League (ACL) group stage on Tuesday.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The first half came to an end after a lackluster performance by both sides in the Group A match at Doha\u2019s Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Al Rayyan played better in the second half, but their strikers failed to take advantage of their chances. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Jerkovic, who came off the bench in the second half, scored the goal in the dying moments of the match, two minutes into stoppage time. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran\u2019s Sepahan will play Al Nasr of the United Arab Emirates in Group C at Isfahan\u2019s Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium on Wednesday.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>And Persepolis will face Saudi Arabian giants Al Hilal at King Fahd International Stadium in Group D on Wednesday. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Tuesday, which was the opening night of the group stage of the tournament, featured eight matches across groups A, B, E, and F. Action in groups C, D, G, and H will start Wednesday.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The top two teams in each of the eight groups advance to a knockout round of 16 on May 29 and 30.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\">Below comes Esteghlal&#8217;s goal from <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>PFDCTV<\/strong><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i6KNsaTPtrE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i6KNsaTPtrE<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DOHA, Iran\u2019s Esteghlal defeated Al Rayyan of Qatar 1-0 thanks to a&#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-12788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3794,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788","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=12788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}