{"id":42162,"date":"2021-04-18T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42162"},"modified":"2021-04-18T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:38:12","slug":"acl-group-c-esteghlal-defeat-10-man-al-shorta-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/04\/18\/acl-group-c-esteghlal-defeat-10-man-al-shorta-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Group C: Esteghlal defeat 10-man Al Shorta [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; JEDDAH, <strong>Esteghlal football team cruised past 10-man Al Shorta of Iraq 3-0 on Matchday Two of the 2021 AFC Champions League Group C on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides entered the game on the back of contrasting Matchday One results, with Al Shorta having lost to Al Duhail SC 2-0 while Esteghlal overpowered Al Ahli Saudi FC 5-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Shorta suffered an early blow at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium as they were reduced to 10 men after Hussam Kadhim received a straight red card for a violent challenge against Farshid Esmaeili just 11 minutes into the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as the first half looked headed to a goalless end, youngster Medhi Ghayedi produced a moment of magic. Marked by two defenders out on the left flank, the Esteghlal starlet mustered a sublime scooped pass between his markers into the path of marauding left-back Mohammad Naderi who rifled home his second goal of the campaign to send his side into the dressing room with the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranians doubled their tally 10 minutes after the restart as Arash Rezavand sent a defense-splitting pass to Esmaeili who controlled on the turn and powered past Taleb into the bottom corner to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malian striker Cheick Diabate made it 3-0 in the 65th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no points from their first two games, Al Shorta face Al Ahli on Matchday Three, while Esteghlal &#8211; with a perfect record &#8211; will look to extend their lead at the top of Group C when they face Al Duhail on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#ACL2021 - Group C | AL Shorta SC (IRQ) 0 - 3 Esteghlal FC (IRN)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Bk26iABeTY?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; JEDDAH, Esteghlal football team cruised past 10-man Al Shorta of Iraq 3-0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42162","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":846,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162","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=42162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42164,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162\/revisions\/42164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}