{"id":27122,"date":"2017-02-07T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27122"},"modified":"2017-02-07T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:49:30","slug":"acl-2017-play-off-esteghlal-0-0-al-sadd-aet-4-3-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/07\/acl-2017-play-off-esteghlal-0-0-al-sadd-aet-4-3-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017: Esteghlal beat Al Sadd in shoot-outs [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former semi-finalists Esteghlal returned to the AFC Champions League Group Stage following a three-year hiatus after overcoming Qatar\u2019s Al Sadd 4-3 on penalties following a goalless stalemate at the Azadi Stadium\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-art-full-text field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden in-tfull\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The two-time Asian Club Championship winners had the better of proceedings against 2011 AFC Champions League winners Al Sadd but neither side was able to break the deadlock\u00a0in 120 minutes\u00a0of action.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Ebrahimi missed Esteghlal\u2019s second penalty of the shootout but they flawlessly converted the remaining spot kicks while Ibrahim Majed and Mohamed Kasola failed to hit the target for Al Sadd, allowing substitute Khosro Heidari to slam home the winner and take the Iranians\u00a0into Group A where they will meet Al Ahli of the United Arab Emirates, Uzbek side Lokomotiv and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Taawoun.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E7xt5-WvPlY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E7xt5-WvPlY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Former semi-finalists Esteghlal returned to the AFC Champions League Group Stage following&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":4030,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}