{"id":28212,"date":"2017-05-29T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28212"},"modified":"2017-05-29T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:09:52","slug":"al-ain-power-past-esteghlal-tehran-to-reach-afc-cl-last-eight-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/29\/al-ain-power-past-esteghlal-tehran-to-reach-afc-cl-last-eight-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Ain power past Esteghlal Tehran to reach AFC CL last eight [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; AL AIN, <strong>Last year\u2019s beaten finalists Al Ain cruised into the quarter-finals of the 2017 AFC Champions League on Monday with a comprehensive 6-1 thrashing allowing Zoran Mamic\u2019s side to brush aside the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Esteghlal and advance to the next round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caio and Omar Abdulrahman both scored twice as Al Ain bounced back from their 1-0 first leg defeat in Iran to notch up a 6-2 aggregate win and signal their intent as the competition breaks for the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Caio\u2019s first half double put Al Ain in command, the Brazilian netting in the 27th and 33rd minutes before the floodgates opened in the second half as Esteghlal sought a way back into the tie.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulrahman scored from the tightest of angles four minutes after the restart, while Lee Myung-joo added the fourth seven minutes later before a long-range attempt from Abdulrahman made it into the bottom corner on the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Nassir Al Shamrani slammed home the sixth in the 76th minute and Kevah Rezaei claimed a consolation for Esteghlal seven minutes from time when his free-kick sneaked in at Khalid Eisa\u2019s near post.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Al Ain vs Esteghlal (AFC Champions League 2017: Round of 16 \u2013 2nd Leg)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RV3eRd5nXGY?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; AL AIN, Last year\u2019s beaten finalists Al Ain cruised into the quarter-finals of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":5812,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28212","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=28212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}