{"id":27866,"date":"2017-04-25T15:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27866"},"modified":"2017-04-25T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:42:34","slug":"acl-2017-md5-group-a-esteghlal-tehran-1-1-al-ahli-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/25\/acl-2017-md5-group-a-esteghlal-tehran-1-1-al-ahli-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 MD5 &#8211; Group A: Esteghlal Tehran 1-1 Al Ahli (UAE) [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>A 1-1 draw between Esteghlal of Islamic Republic of Iran and Emirati side Al Ahli on Tuesday saw both sides move to the brink of qualification from Group A of the AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visitors Al Ahli took a 17th minute lead in the clash at a packed Azadi Stadium, with Abdulaziz Sanqour placing the ball into the net after a neat header from striker Ahmed Khalil found him unmarked in the area.<\/p>\n<p>On the half-hour mark, though, only a fine low save by Majed Naser in the Ahli net prevented a Yaghoub Karimi free-kick from levelling the tie.<\/p>\n<p>In the 58th minute, Esteghlal\u2019s pressure finally told as a quick throw released Khosro Heydari whose lobbed cross was headed home by striker Kaveh Rezaei.<\/p>\n<p>With neither side then able to find a winner, both teams now lie on eight points with one Group A game remaining &#8211; three points clear of both Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Taawoun and Uzbekistan\u2019s Lokomotiv.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BG79iOClR1Y\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BG79iOClR1Y<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, A 1-1 draw between Esteghlal of Islamic Republic of Iran and Emirati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":6146,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866","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=27866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}