{"id":40474,"date":"2020-09-24T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40474"},"modified":"2020-09-24T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:26:38","slug":"acl-sepahan-ends-campaign-in-style-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/24\/acl-sepahan-ends-campaign-in-style-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Sepahan ends campaign in style [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Sepahan football club ended their 2020 AFC Champions League on a high after defeating Al Sadd of Qatar 2-1 in Group D on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan had already been eliminated, having collected just four points from their previous five games, while Al Sadd had booked their place in the Round of 16 with a game to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Sadd coach Xavi made 10 changes to his starting XI that played out a 1-1 draw against Al Nassr three days earlier, with only center-back Tarek Salman retaining his place in the team, before being swapped for Abdelkarim Hassan at half time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reza Mirzaei dribbled past Salman before firing with his left into the bottom corner to open the scoring in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sajjad Shahbazzadeh extended Sepahan\u2019s lead in the 53rd minute and eight minutes before the final whistle, Hashim Ali made it 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result means Al Sadd finish in second place of Group D with nine points and will face the Group C winners in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan end their campaign in third place with seven 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=\"#ACL2020 : SEPAHAN FC (IRN) 2 - 1 AL SADD SC (QAT) : Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Me7dQjPHbcY?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, Sepahan football club ended their 2020 AFC Champions League on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40474","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-sepahan"],"views":525,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474","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=40474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40476,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions\/40476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}