{"id":43577,"date":"2021-09-14T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43577"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T01:06:10","slug":"2021-acl-persepolis-earn-hard-fought-win-over-istiklol-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/14\/2021-acl-persepolis-earn-hard-fought-win-over-istiklol-video\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 ACL: Persepolis earn hard-fought win over Istiklol [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUSHANBE, <strong>Persepolis football team of Iran earned a hard-fought win over Tajikistan\u2019s Istiklol in the 2021 AFC Champions League Round of 16 on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahdi Torabi struck in the 90th minute to secure Persepolis a 1-0 win over Istiklol in Dushanbe\u2019s Republican Central Stadium.<br \/><br \/>Persepolis was the better team in their away match but failed to capitalize on their chances against organized Istiklol until the last seconds of the match when Torabi put the ball behind Istiklol goalkeeper Mukhriddin Hasanov. \u00a0<br \/><br \/>\u201cTo play in the artificial turf was difficult since we didn\u2019t use to play in the field in our league. I am very happy since we have earned a hard-fought win against an organized football team,\u201d Torabi said.<\/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 - Round of 16 | FC Istiklol (TJK) 0 - 1 Persepolis FC (IRN)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g9xzTifRtuo?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; DUSHANBE, Persepolis football team of Iran earned a hard-fought win over Tajikistan\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis"],"views":701,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43577","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=43577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43579,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43577\/revisions\/43579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}