{"id":30802,"date":"2018-02-13T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30802"},"modified":"2018-02-13T10:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:42:27","slug":"afc-champions-league-group-d-al-rayyan-2-2-esteghlal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/13\/afc-champions-league-group-d-al-rayyan-2-2-esteghlal-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Champions League: Group D: Al Rayyan 2-2 Esteghlal [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Al Rayyan captain Rodrigo Tabata had a mixed evening as his side played out an entertaining 2-2 draw against Esteghlal at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Matchday One of the 2018 AFC Champions League Group D.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two-time AFC Player of the Year Server Djeparov found space inside Al Rayyan&#8217;s box and sent a pacey cross that was deflected off Tabata and into his own net to hand Esteghlal the lead inside six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Tabata shortly made amends, sending a pinpoint delivery from a free-kick to find Abderrazzak Hamed-Allah. The Moroccan directed his header accurately to beat goalkeeper Seyed Hosseini and bring Al Rayyan level in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The duo combined again 10 minutes later to turn the tie around. This time Hamed-Allah was the creator as he cut inside from the left flank and laid off a pass for Tabata who applied a first-time finish from inside the box, leaving Hosseini helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Al Rayyan were reduced to 10 men for the final 10 minutes after Tabata was dismissed for a late challenge on Pejman Montazeri.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal took advantage of their numerical superiority to equalise two minutes from time as Ali Ghorbani headed home Omid Ebrahimi\u2019s cross from the right wing.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal face Saudi champions Al Hilal on Matchday Two while Al Rayyan travel to the UAE to play Al Ain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Al Rayyan 2-2 Esteghlal (AFC Champions League 2018: Group Stage)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GEEkb3q9WWk?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; DOHA, Al Rayyan captain Rodrigo Tabata had a mixed evening as his side&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30802","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":1659,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30802","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=30802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30808,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30802\/revisions\/30808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}