{"id":33285,"date":"2018-08-28T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33285"},"modified":"2018-08-28T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:15:16","slug":"quarter-final-1st-leg-al-duhail-1-0-persepolis-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/28\/quarter-final-1st-leg-al-duhail-1-0-persepolis-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter-final 1st Leg: Al Duhail 1-0 Persepolis [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Doha, <strong>A first-half header from Almoez Ali proved the difference as Qatar&#8217;s Al Duhail notched a narrow 1-0 win over Persepolis of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the first leg of the 2018 AFC Champions League quarter-finals at the Khalifa International Stadium on Tuesday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The result meant that the Qatari champions matched Ulsan Hyundai&#8217;s record of nine consecutive wins in the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Al Duhail nearly seized the initiative early on with front man Youssef El Arabi narrowly failing to connect with Nam Tae-hee&#8217;s header across the goalmouth in the fourth minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the 15th minute, the home side broke the deadlock through young striker Ali. Summer signing Edmilson sent in a teasing cross from the left and the unmarked Ali headed in with aplomb to get his second goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis then came close to equalising in the 23rd minute, but Omid Alishah&#8217;s effort flew just wide of Amine Lecomte&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams failed to muster further clear-cut chances until halftime and a similar theme also ensued as the second half kicked off.<\/p>\n<p>While Persepolis came out with renewed vigour, they could not pose a serious threat except for Mohammad Ansari&#8217;s strike that sailed over the crossbar following a quick free-kick.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/img\/image\/upload\/t_l7\/chdypfb0blv0nit4djmp.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/img\/image\/upload\/t_l7\/chdypfb0blv0nit4djmp.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 77th minute, Al Duhail defender Lucas Mendes tested Alireza Beiranvand&#8217;s reflexes with a scorching free-kick, which the latter tipped over the bar for a corner.<\/p>\n<p>The game went on to end with only a single goal and Al Duhail could regret not taking a bigger advantage to Tehran for the second leg on September 17.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Al Duhail SC 1-0 Persepolis FC (AFC Champions League 2018: Quarter-final \u2013 First Leg)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQti99rhg_s?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, A first-half header from Almoez Ali proved the difference as Qatar&#8217;s Al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":907,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33288,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285\/revisions\/33288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}