{"id":35746,"date":"2019-03-12T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35746"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:46:06","slug":"acl-esteghlal-held-persepolis-suffer-late-defeat-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/12\/acl-esteghlal-held-persepolis-suffer-late-defeat-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Esteghlal held, Persepolis suffer late defeat [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian football clubs Esteghlal and Persepolis were disappointed to register their first wins in the 2019 AFC Asian League Matchday Two on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, Esteghlal were held to a 1-1 draw by Al Ain of the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farshid Esmaeili scored for the hosts in the 53rd minute but with five minutes remaining Tsukasa Shiotani equalized the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia defeated Qatar\u2019s Al Duhail 3-1 in another Group C match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Hilal remain top of the group with six points, followed by Al Duhail who have earned three points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Ain and Esteghlal are third and fourth with just one point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Group D, Persepolis lost to Al Sadd of Qatar after conceding an injury time goal in Doha\u2019s Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baghdad Bounedjah scored the winner for the Qatari giants in the dying moments of the match with a header.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on the day, Uzbekistan\u2019s Pakhtakor edged past Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia 1-0 in Tashkent\u2019s Pakhtakor Central Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakhtakor <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">move<\/g> up <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">top<\/g> of the table with four points, followed by Al Ahli and Al Sadd with three points each and Persepolis remain bottom with just one point. <\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K8EGZ3K1jbA\n<\/div><\/figure>\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\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gitxd6r5wXg\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian football clubs Esteghlal and Persepolis were disappointed to register their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":448,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746","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=35746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35748,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions\/35748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}