{"id":38651,"date":"2020-02-10T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38651"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:01:25","slug":"acl-2020-esteghlal-of-iran-held-by-iraqs-al-shorta-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/10\/acl-2020-esteghlal-of-iran-held-by-iraqs-al-shorta-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2020: Esteghlal of Iran held by Iraq\u2019s Al Shorta [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Iranian football team Esteghlal were held to a 1-1 draw by Iraq\u2019s Al Shorta in Group A of the 2020 AFC Champions League on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\n home team went into the game at Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil dreaming\n of becoming the first-ever Iraqi side to defeat an Iranian team in the \nAFC Champions League after seven previous meetings between teams from \nthe two neighboring nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali Karimi supplied a perfectly-weighted \npass for onrushing left-back Milad Zakipour who drilled a cross \ntargeting Amir Arsalan Motahari at the far post. Before the ball could \nreach Esteghlal\u2019s number 72, defender Kadhim attempted a sliding \nclearance, but ended up sending the ball into the net to gift the \nvisitors their opening goal in the 22nd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the break, Al Shorta returned to the\n pitch with renewed momentum, and within 50 seconds of the restart they \nhad penetrated the Esteghlal defense, forcing defender Shahin Taherkhani\n to bring Ali Yousif down inside the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraqi international centre-back Ali Fayez \nstepped up to take the resulting penalty kick and powered it past \ngoalkeeper Hossein Hosseini to equalize for Al Shorta in the 48th \nminute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Shorta will look to add to their first  point when they welcome UAE\u2019s Al Wahda to the Franso Hariri Stadium next  week, while Esteghlal travel to Kuwait to face Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli  on Matchday Two.<\/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=\"#ACL2020 : AL SHORTA (IRQ) 1-1 ESTEGHLAL FC (IRN) : Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSkMmhKSTRs?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; TEHRAN, Iranian football team Esteghlal were held to a 1-1 draw by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":941,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38651","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=38651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38653,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38651\/revisions\/38653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}