{"id":27848,"date":"2017-04-24T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27848"},"modified":"2017-04-24T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:38:20","slug":"al-ain-ease-past-zobahan-to-seal-spot-in-knockout-phase-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/24\/al-ain-ease-past-zobahan-to-seal-spot-in-knockout-phase-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Ain ease past Zobahan to seal spot in knockout phase [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Al Ain guaranteed themselves a place in the Round of 16 of the 2017 AFC Champions League on Monday with a 3-0 win over Zobahan that ensures Zoran Mamic\u2019s team cannot finish outside the top two in Group C.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Danilo Asprilla gave Al Ain the lead in the 25th minute before Jerry Bengtson\u2019s missed penalty saw last year\u2019s beaten finalists hold onto their advantage going into the half-time interval.<\/p>\n<p>A fine solo effort from Omar Abdulrahman doubled Al Ain\u2019s advantage 12 minutes into the second half and Mohammed Abdulrahman added a third nine minutes from time to seal all three points.<\/p>\n<p>The win moves Al Ain into first place in the group with nine points, one ahead of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli and a further point clear of Zobahan. With Al Ahli and Zobahan due to meet on Matchday Six, Al Ain are assured of a place in the top two positions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9EZes6hvvs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9EZes6hvvs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ISFAHAN, Al Ain guaranteed themselves a place in the Round of 16 of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4101,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848","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=27848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}