{"id":31878,"date":"2018-05-15T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31878"},"modified":"2018-05-15T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:37:17","slug":"acl-2018-mame-thiam-leads-esteghlal-into-quarter-finals-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/15\/acl-2018-mame-thiam-leads-esteghlal-into-quarter-finals-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018: Mame Thiam leads Esteghlal into quarter-finals [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>A Mame Thiam hat-trick earned Esteghlal the final West Asia AFC Champions League quarter-final ticket as they defeated fellow Islamic Republic of Iran side Zobahan 3-1 in Tuesday&#8217;s second leg, securing a 3-2 aggregate win.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a tense start, Esteghlal were awarded a penalty kick inside 11 minutes and Senegalese forward Thiam fired from the spot into the bottom left corner, taking the tie back to square one.<\/p>\n<p>Hamid Bouhamdan came close to levelling the score for Zobahan in the 29th minute but his shot from the left cannoned off the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>As the first half neared its end, Thiam was on target again, this time from outside the box as he curled a left-footed effort that left goalkeeper Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri helpless to put Esteghlal in front four minutes before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Thiam had more in store for Zobahan&#8217;s defenders as he took his tally in the competition to seven goals, completing his hat-trick in the 64th minute. The striker, who joined Esteghlal in February, received Server Djeparov&#8217;s pulled back pass and applied a composed finish from inside the box.<\/p>\n<p>Zobahan captain Ghasem Haddadifar restored some hope for the visitors one minute later with a thunderous drive from outside the box that tricked Esteghlal goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati. The Tehran based side held tight for the rest of the match to earn a victory on the night and joined their city rivals Persepolis in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The two Iranian sides are joined by Qatari duo Al Sadd and Al Duhail in the West Asian quarter-finals which will take place in August and September. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Esteghlal FC 3-1 Zobahan (AFC Champions League 2018: Round of 16 \u2013 Second Leg)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sl84oIAN26I?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, A Mame Thiam hat-trick earned Esteghlal the final West Asia AFC Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31878","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"],"views":1437,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878","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=31878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31880,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878\/revisions\/31880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}