{"id":31295,"date":"2018-04-03T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31295"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:32:14","slug":"acl-2018-group-a-al-ahli-saudi-fc-2-0-tractorsazi-tabriz-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/03\/acl-2018-group-a-al-ahli-saudi-fc-2-0-tractorsazi-tabriz-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018 &#8211; Group A: Al Ahli Saudi FC 2-0 Tractorsazi Tabriz [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; AL AIN, <strong>Al Ahli Saudi FC sealed their place in the last 16 stage of the 2018 AFC Champions League after defeating Tractorsazi Tabriz 2-0 in a Group A clash on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranians started the brighter of the two sides and had their first chance 11 minutes into the game, when Mohammad Ebrahimi&#8217;s volley went wide after a spectacular cross from Mohammad Iranpourian.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian midifelder Claudemir was stretchered off to be replaced with Waleed Bakhashwain in the 15th minute as the Saudi side struggled, allowing the visitors to threaten again &#8211; this time from a free-kick by Ebrahimi to Mohammadreza Mehdizadeh&#8217;s whose header went above the bar.<\/p>\n<p>The match sprang to life in the 19th minute when Tractorsazi were awarded a penalty kick after a foul on Amir Motahari by defender Aqeel Balghaith but captain Mehdi Kiani failed to convert as he his shot hit the right post.<\/p>\n<p>In the final minutes of the first half, the hosts reassembled and began to create dangerous attacks as Taiseer Al Jassam delivered a pass to Mohannad Aseri who fired a shot that went high. Al Jassim broke through the Iranian defence but his attempt sailed wide off the far corner.<\/p>\n<p>After the break, Aseri gave his team the lead through a powerful strike into the right corner of the net in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahli cemented their victory with a second goal late on after Moamen Zakaria pounced on a poor defensive clearance to fire home in added time to confirm his side&#8217;s qualification to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi side join Al Jazira in qualifying from Group A, while Tractorsazi will finish bottom of the group and are eliminated alongside Al Gharafa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Al Ahli 2-0 Tractorsazi Tabriz (AFC Champions League 2018: Group Stage)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8lypb_afpYA?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, Al Ahli Saudi FC sealed their place in the last 16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31295","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":1225,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295","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=31295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31297,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295\/revisions\/31297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}