{"id":31115,"date":"2018-03-13T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31115"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:17:14","slug":"acl-2018-matchday-four-group-c-al-wasl-0-1-persepolis-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/13\/acl-2018-matchday-four-group-c-al-wasl-0-1-persepolis-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018: Matchday Four &#8211; Group C: Al Wasl 0-1 Persepolis [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Persepolis earned an important 1-0 away victory thanks to a goal from Kamal Kamyabinia that officially eliminated Al Wasl from the competition on Matchday Four of the 2018 AFC Champions League Group C on Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It took five minutes for the hosts to make their first attempt through a shot from Abdalla Al Naqbi that was saved by goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand.<\/p>\n<p>A minute later, Al Wasl threatened again after a cross from Ali Saleh to captain Fabio de Lima whose strike went above the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors had a chance to open the scoring in the 21st minute when Siamak Nemati sent a powerful shot from a free-kick too high after a foul on goalkeeper Yousif Abdulla, who was booked for touching the ball outside the 18-yard box.<\/p>\n<p>Eight minutes before half time, Persepolis broke the deadlock when Hossein Mahini delivered a pinpoint cross into the box to Kamyabinia who headed into the near corner.<\/p>\n<p>With the beginning of the second half, the hosts came close to levelling the score but Lima&#8217;s header missed the net after a cross from Ronaldo Mendes in the 48th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes thought he scored the equaliser after cutting in from the right flank and firing from a narrow angle but the Brazilian saw his attempt saved by goalkeeper Beiranvand.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth consecutive defeat leaves Al Wasl bottom of Group C with no hope of advancing to the next stage ahead of Matchday Five&#8217;s trip to face Al Sadd.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s semi-finalists Persepolis are, meanwhile, second in the group with nine points and will travel to Qarshi next to meet Nasaf.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Al Wasl 0-1 Persepolis (AFC Champions League 2018: Group Stage)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZbrK9jW4Y8o?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; DUBAI, Persepolis earned an important 1-0 away victory thanks to a goal from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31115","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":2048,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115","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=31115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31117,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115\/revisions\/31117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}