{"id":12966,"date":"2012-05-23T22:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T05:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/23\/persepolis-debacle-against-unimpressive-al-hilal\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T22:13:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T05:13:53","slug":"persepolis-debacle-against-unimpressive-al-hilal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/23\/persepolis-debacle-against-unimpressive-al-hilal\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis debacle against unimpressive Al Ittihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ittihad persepolis 3x2\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/acl\/2012\/r16\/ittihad_persepolis_3x2.jpg\" height=\"204\" width=\"320\" \/>PFDC \u2013 JEDDAH, <strong>Persepolis FC crashed out of the Asian Champion\u2019s League, losing away to Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia by a scoreline of 3-0.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The loss brings an end to a dismal season for the Tehran giants, who have also failed to qualify for the 2013 edition of Asia\u2019s most prestigious club tournament following their 12th place finish in Iran\u2019s domestic league.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>As expected, the Saudi hosts began the single-legged round of 16 match by mounting pressure on their visitors. Despite their numerous opportunities, Al Ittihad were constantly denied by Perspolis\u2019 Bosnian goalkeeper, Asmir Avdukic.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>However, Al Ittihad were awarded a questionable penalty in the 35th minute of a match following a light foul by Sheys Rezaei near the corner of the box. The penalty was successfully converted by Naif Hazazi who carefully placed the ball in the bottom right corner of the net while sending Avdukic to the left. <\/p>\n<p>\u2028\u2028Persepolis\u2019 bad fortunes were to continue as Faouzi Abdelghani scored for Al Ittihad following Sheys Rezaei\u2019s failure to clear the ball out of the Persepolis box during the final minute of stoppage time during the first half. <\/p>\n<p>\u2028\u2028Despite Persepolis\u2019 offensive approach in the second half, the Iranian side was unable to mount any serious challenges on the Saudi goal given an array of poor passing and shots outside of Ittihad\u2019s box. The closest the Tehrani club came to scoring in the second half arrived in the 82nd minute when Eamon Zayed\u2019s header hit the top of the crossbar.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, Al Ittihad capitalized on their own opportunity to effectively put an end to a possible comeback by Persepolis thanks to an Autef Abdoh\u2019s strike following a series of passes within the Persepolis box. \u2028\u2028Following Perspolis\u2019 defeat, Sepahan remains as Iran\u2019s sole representative to progress to the quarter finals stage of the Asian Champion\u2019s League, which will commence on September 19. \u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Asia, Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia made light work of Bani Yas Club, defeating the Emirati side 7-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC \u2013 JEDDAH, Persepolis FC crashed out of the Asian Champion\u2019s League, losing away to&#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-12966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3384,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966","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=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}