{"id":36147,"date":"2019-04-23T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36147"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:42:14","slug":"acl-persepolis-fall-short-against-al-ahli-saudi-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/04\/23\/acl-persepolis-fall-short-against-al-ahli-saudi-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Persepolis fall short against Al Ahli Saudi [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Omar Al Somah scored a brace as Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli defeated Persepolis of Iran 2-1 in Group D of the AFC Champions League on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two teams came into the match occupying the last two places in the group, with Persepolis sitting third with four points after their 2-0 win against Al Ahli on Matchday Three left the Saudis bottom of the group with three points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took half an hour for the first goal of the game to arrive, and it was Al Somah who registered it for the home team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghareeb skipped past two defenders and looked to round Persepolis goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand who brought him down inside the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese referee awarded a penalty which Al Somah emphatically drove home for his third goal of the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis controlled the dominance in the second half and created several chances but Ali Alipour, Siamak Nemati and Soroush Rafiei wasted their chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight minutes before the end of the 90 minutes, Beiranvand was left helpless to rescue after Al Soma curled a free-kick from the edge of the box into the top corner to add the second goal for Al Ahli and for himself on the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he did in the first match, defender Shojae Khalilzadeh showed his eye for goal, heading home Rafiei\u2019s cross in added time. His goal this time was merely a consolation for Persepolis as the final whistle confirmed a 2-1 win for the Saudis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competition for qualification spots remains heated in Group D, with Al Sadd of Qatar, who defeated Uzbekistan\u2019s Pakhtakor 2-1, climbed to the top with seven points. Al Ahli sit second with six points. Pakhtakor are third collecting five points and Persepolis sit bottom of the table with four points.<\/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 Ahli Saudi FC 2-1 Persepolis FC (AFC Champions League 2019: Group Stage)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/deNTeItxXt4?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; DOHA, Omar Al Somah scored a brace as Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36147","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-persepolis"],"views":819,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36147","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=36147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36149,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36147\/revisions\/36149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}