{"id":21586,"date":"2015-05-20T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21586"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T22:24:16","slug":"naft-erase-title-disappointment-with-important-win-in-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/20\/naft-erase-title-disappointment-with-important-win-in-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Naft Erase Title Disappointment With Important Win in ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eurosport &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran forward Gholamreza Rezaei erased any despair Naft Tehran had of missing their first Persian Gulf Pro League title last week with a 1-0 victory over Al-Ahli in the Asian Champions League round of 16 first leg clash on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naft were pipped for their first Iranian league title last Friday when they battled back from a two-goal deficit to snatch a 3-3 draw with Tractor Sazi but lost the title to Sepahan, who leapfrogged both Naft and Tractor with a 2-0 win over Sapia. <\/p>\n<p>Rezaei, however, went a little way to erasing those memories when he finished off a strong surge from midfielder Hossein Ebrahimi in the 34th minute of the clash at Azadi Stadium in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The home side dominated against the Saudis but were unable to convert their numerous chances with Rezaei dragging his shot wide in the 65th minute, just after Al-Ahli goalkeeper Abdullah Al Muaiouf had thwarted Saeid Lotfi. <\/p>\n<p>Al Muaiouf ensured his side were still alive in the tie with the second leg in Jeddah next week when he pushed a curling free-kick from Iman Mobali onto the post with 12 minutes remaining, something Naft coach Alireza Mansourian was aware of. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy with the result but not my players&#8217; performance in the second half,&#8221; Mansourian told the AFC website. &#8220;Iman Mobali and Arsalan Motahari should have converted their chances so we could go to (Jeddah) with more goals.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurosport &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran forward Gholamreza Rezaei erased any despair Naft Tehran had of missing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1766,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}