{"id":38693,"date":"2020-02-17T21:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38693"},"modified":"2020-02-17T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:14:47","slug":"acl-2020-esteghlal-suffer-defeat-against-al-ahli-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/acl-2020-esteghlal-suffer-defeat-against-al-ahli-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2020: Esteghlal suffer defeat against Al Ahli [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team of Iran lost to Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia 2-1 in Group A of the AFC Champions League on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n the match held at the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium in Kuwait \nCity, Al Ahli forward Mazen Abu Sharah was brought down by Esteghlal \ngoalkeeper Hossein Hosseini in the area and Salman Muwashar converted \nthe penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner in the \n17th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five minutes later, Esteghlal striker Amir Arsalan Motahari equalized the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muwashar was on target once again in the 29th minute after receiving the ball from Abdulrahman Ghareeb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal could have equalized the match in the 41st minute but Vouria Ghafouri failed to score his penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal were dominant in the second half but their strikers lacked a cutting edge in attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on the day, Al Wahda of the UAE defeated Al Shorta 1-0. Al Ahli and Al Wahda sit top of the table with four points, and Esteghlal and Al Shorta are third and fourth with one point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal will travel to Abu Dhabi on  March 2 to meet Al Wahda at the Al Nahyan Stadium, while Al Ahli host Al  Shorta of Iraq in Jeddah.<\/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 AHLI SAUDI FC (KSA) 2-1 ESTEGHLAL FC (IRN) : Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIutBKsuMCA?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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team of Iran lost to Al Ahli of Saudi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":976,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38693","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=38693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38695,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38693\/revisions\/38695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}