{"id":31087,"date":"2018-03-12T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31087"},"modified":"2018-03-12T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:12:05","slug":"acl-2018-matchday-four-group-b-esteghlal-11-al-ain-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/12\/acl-2018-matchday-four-group-b-esteghlal-11-al-ain-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018: Matchday Four &#8211; Group B: Esteghlal 1:1 Al Ain [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Tsukasa Shiotani&#8217;s late goal earned Al Ain a 1-1 away draw against Group D rivals Esteghlal in Matchday Four of the AFC Champions League on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al Ain tried to open the scoring early in the game, but Rayan Yaslam&#8217;s left footed effort missed the target by a narrow margin 12 minutes in. Omar Abdulrahman tested the goalkeeper from outside the box but Seyed Hosseini was alert and made the save in the 24th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Three minutes before the half time whistle, Mame Thiam&#8217;s third goal of the competition restored parity from the spot after Farshid Esmaeili was brought down inside the box.<\/p>\n<p>Six minutes after the restart, Al Ain&#8217;s Marcus Berg&#8217;s shot was saved following a headed pass from Abdulrahman.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ain continued to dominate and push for an equaliser, and they were finally rewarded in the 78th minute when Shiotani unleashed a powerful shot that left the Iranian goalkeeper helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal host Al Rayyan on Matchday Five, while Al Ain welcome Al Hilal to Hazza bin Zayed Stadium next month.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Esteghlal 1-1 Al Ain (AFC Champions League 2018: Group Stage)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MF4iPWcW1mA?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; TEHRAN, Tsukasa Shiotani&#8217;s late goal earned Al Ain a 1-1 away draw against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31087","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":1398,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31087","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=31087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31090,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31087\/revisions\/31090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}