{"id":40501,"date":"2020-09-26T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40501"},"modified":"2020-09-26T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T00:15:13","slug":"acl-esteghlal-fall-short-against-pakhtakor-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/26\/acl-esteghlal-fall-short-against-pakhtakor-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Esteghlal fall short against Pakhtakor [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Uzbekistan\u2019s Pakhtakor came from behind to defeat Esteghlal football team 2-1 in the 2020 AFC Champions League Round of 16 at Al Janoub Stadium on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakhtakor qualified for the quarter-finals for the first time since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 32nd minute, Esteghlal midfielder Ali Karimi beautifully curled the ball into the back of the net from the free-kick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two minutes before the end of the first half, Pakhtakor found their equalizer. Sardor Sobirkhodjaev set-up Alijonov to cross from deep at the far post where Dragan Ceran was first to the ball, guiding his header past Hossein Hosseini to draw Pakhtakor level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the absence of COVID-19 stricken coach Shota Arveladze, it was down to his Dutch assistant Pieter Huistra to deliver the halftime talk, and his words set up Pakhtakor for a red hot start to the second half as they added their second within a minute of the restart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A swift and progressive exchange of passes in the opposition half allowed Sobirkhodjaev to find Erin Deriyok with plenty of space down the right and the Swiss striker drilled a half-volleyed effort from the edge of the box into the bottom corner to give Pakhtakor the lead for the first time in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal looked to respond and by the 54th minute, they had a major goal scoring chance when Mehdi Ghaedi cut inside from the left and whipped a cross into the six yard box for Diabate who poked it goalward, but Suyunov was well positioned and clutched into the ball to keep his side in front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakhtakor controlled possession for long stretches of the second half and booked a match in the next stage.<\/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 : PAKHTAKOR (UZB) 2-1 ESTEGHLAL FC (IRN) : Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9LkCOswwh5M?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, Uzbekistan\u2019s Pakhtakor came from behind to defeat Esteghlal football team 2-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":763,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501","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=40501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40503,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501\/revisions\/40503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}