{"id":27348,"date":"2017-02-27T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27348"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:16:19","slug":"acl2017-md2-group-a-esteghlal-tehran-3-0-al-taawoun-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/27\/acl2017-md2-group-a-esteghlal-tehran-3-0-al-taawoun-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL2017 MD2 &#8211; Group A: Esteghlal Tehran 3-0 Al Taawoun [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, <strong>Two-time Asian champions Esteghlal of the Islamic Republic of Iran eased to their first win of the 2017 AFC Champions League after securing a comfortable 3-0 victory over Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Taawoun in Group A on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal took the lead inside a minute at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex after the Al Taawoun backline failed to clear a long throw-in from the right and the ball eventually fell kindly to Kaveh Rezaei, who finished through a crowd of defenders from eight yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian side doubled their advantage with 20 minutes remaining when Al Taawoun again were unable to clear their lines following a long free-kick into the box and, after Jaber Ansari mishit his attempt, Mohsen Karimi was on hand to finish from six yards.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Ebrahimi\u2019s accurate delivery was then headed home by Brazilian defender Leandro Padovani with two minutes remaining to leave all four teams in the table on three points after Uzbekistan&#8217;s Lokomotiv defeated Al Ahli of the United Arab Emirates 2-0 in Monday\u2019s other Group A fixture.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Esteghlal FC vs Al Taawoun FC (AFC Champions League 2017: Group Stage - MD2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PCQ4n68yk-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, Two-time Asian champions Esteghlal of the Islamic Republic of Iran eased to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3456,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27348","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=27348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}