{"id":40462,"date":"2020-09-23T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40462"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:29:13","slug":"acl-esteghlal-defeats-al-ahli-to-reach-round-of-16-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/23\/acl-esteghlal-defeats-al-ahli-to-reach-round-of-16-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Esteghlal defeats Al Ahli to reach &#8216;Round of 16&#8217; [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia to book a place at the 2020 AFC Champions League Round of 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal beat Al Ahli 3-0 at the Al Janoub Stadium in Doha in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Ghaedi opened the scoring for the Blues in the 29th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Karimi made it 2-0 in the 39th minute and Cheick Diabate scored the Blues\u2019 third goal with a header in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Ahli advanced to the knockout stage as the first team with six points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal and Al Shorta of Iraq earned five points but the Iranian team qualified for the Round of 16 with a superior goal difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian teams Shahr Khodro and Sepahan failed to qualify for the next stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis can book a place in the knockout stage if defeat Sharjah of the UAE in Group C on Thursday.<\/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 : ESTEGHLAL FC (IRN) 3 - 0 AL AHLI SAUDI FC (KSA) : Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dGKZS0b5_ds?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, Esteghlal football team defeated Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia to book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40462","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"],"views":836,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462","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=40462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40464,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462\/revisions\/40464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}