{"id":50156,"date":"2023-11-27T16:54:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50156"},"modified":"2023-11-27T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:54:42","slug":"sepahan-edge-air-force-to-boost-their-hopes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/11\/27\/sepahan-edge-air-force-to-boost-their-hopes-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan edge Air Force to boost their hopes [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Nine-man Sepahan Iran held out to secure a valuable 1-0 win over Iraq\u2019s Air Force Club to boost their hopes of advancing from Group C of the AFC Champions League 2023\/24 at Azadi Stadium on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The win helped Sepahan keep pace with leaders Al Ittihad FC with the Saudi Arabian side two points ahead, with the two teams to meet in a decider on Matchday Six.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan needed just four minutes to open the scoring, benefiting from a defensive mix up when Air Force Club\u2019s right-back Hamoud Mashaan attempted a back pass but goalkeeper Mohammed Hameed and center-back Ruslan Hanoon hesitated, allowing Ramin Rezaeian to poke the ball goalwards before Farshad Ahmadzadeh finished it into the back of the net from close range.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian side were reduced to 10 men in the final minutes of the first half when Mohammad Hosseinnezhad received a direct red card after a late challenge on Mustafa Saadoun.With tensions rising in the final minutes of the game, Sepahan had another man dismissed as Hadi Mohammadi received his marching orders following a physical altercation with Abdulkadhim to leave his side with nine men for the rest of the match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sepahan vs. Air Force Club: Extended Highlights | AFC Champions League | CBS Sports Golazo - Asia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TvHUZFbLN9U?start=102&#038;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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, Nine-man Sepahan Iran held out to secure a valuable 1-0 win over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":50157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-sepahan"],"views":644,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50158,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156\/revisions\/50158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}