{"id":35730,"date":"2019-03-11T20:17:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T03:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35730"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:17:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T03:17:36","slug":"zob-ahan-earn-dramatic-win-over-al-nassr-of-saudi-arabia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/11\/zob-ahan-earn-dramatic-win-over-al-nassr-of-saudi-arabia-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Zob Ahan earn dramatic win over Al Nassr of Saudi Arabia [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI,\u00a0<strong>Zob Ahan snatched a dramatic 3-2 win over Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr at Al Maktoum Stadium on Matchday Two of the 2019 AFC Champions League Group A on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Nassr wasted no time in getting down to business as Brazilian midfielder Giuliano fired them in front just four minutes into the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giuliano found space inside the Zob Ahan box and swept home from close range after Hamad Al Mansour advanced on the right and sent a low cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammed Nejad Mehdi equalized for the Iranians at the half-hour mark, powering in a header from Mohammad Reza Hosseini\u2019s cross, the-afc.com reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vahid Mohammedzadeh sent Zob Ahan into the lead six minutes before the half time break, capitalizing on poor defensive coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defender battled for an aerial ball after a long throw-in and managed to squeeze in a shot from an arrow angle that beat goalkeeper Brad Jones at his near post to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Nassr grabbed an equalizer 13 minutes after the restart through Abdelrazaq Hamdalla. The Moroccan looked to round goalkeeper Mohammed Rashid Mazaheri but was brought down inside the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamdalla stepped up to take the penalty himself and confidently slotted home the equalizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Al Rayyan forward thought he had won the game for his team late into the second half after he was again brought down inside the box and awarded a penalty in the dying minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was disappointment for Al Nassr fans this time, however, as the Moroccan&#8217;s scoring boot deserted him and he sent his effort from the spot the wrong side of the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, there was joy for the Zob Ahan supporters and further misery to the Saudi fans as the Iranian side snatched a late winner deep in added time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set-pieces were again the downfall of Al Nassr as Hamid Maleki\u2019s corner-kick evaded all the defending bodies to find its way to Amir Motahari who rose highest to drive home the header in the last minute of added time and secure a 3-2 win for Zob Ahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zob Ahan <g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">visit<\/g> Dubai again next month, but this time to face Al Wasl. Meanwhile, Al Nassr\u2019s pursuit of a first victory will continue on home soil as they welcome Al Zawraa to the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on April 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Al Nassr 2-3 Zobahan FC (AFC Champions League 2019: Group Stage)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZH3K8maN5n4?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI,\u00a0Zob Ahan snatched a dramatic 3-2 win over Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35730","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":1011,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730","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=35730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35732,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730\/revisions\/35732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}