{"id":51715,"date":"2024-08-06T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51715"},"modified":"2024-08-06T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:18:24","slug":"acl-elite-azmoun-scores-as-sepahan-fall-to-shabab-al-ahli-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/08\/06\/acl-elite-azmoun-scores-as-sepahan-fall-to-shabab-al-ahli-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Elite: Azmoun scores as Sepahan fall to Shabab Al Ahli [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Shabab Al Ahli of the UAE came from behind to defeat Iran\u2019s Sepahan 4-1 after extra time in their AFC Champions League Elite 2024\/25 Preliminary Stage 1 tie at the Naghsh-e-Jahan Stadium on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The win took Shabab Al Ahli within one match of qualifying for the West league stage with the United Arab Emirates side to face Qatar&#8217;s Al Gharafa on Aug. 13 in the second preliminary stage.<\/p>\n<p>Neither side could make much headway in the opening half, with chances for both at a premium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Sepahan, however, found a way past the tight Shabab Al Ahli defense just before the break, with Mohammadmehdi Mohebi opening the scoring with his shot from the center of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Boosted by the goal, 2007 AFC Champions League runners-up Sepahan started the second half on the front foot but it was Shabab Al Ahli who found the back of the net next, drawing level through Sardar Azmoun.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-signed Iran international was on the pitch for mere seconds when he found the target, sending his shot high into the Sepahan net from the center of the box, the-afc.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>Neither side were able to find the target again in the remaining minutes of regulation time but that changed 11 minutes into extra-time with Yahya Al Ghassani putting Shabab Al Ahli ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Yuri Cesar netted Shabab Al Ahli&#8217;s third in the 109th minute with Al Ghassani scoring his second of the evening just before the final whistle as the UAE side moved within one match of securing a place in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sepahan FC (Iran) vs Shabab Al Ahli (UAE) | All Goals &amp; Highlights | AFC Champions League Elite 2024\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ACGFO1XgTeI?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>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, Shabab Al Ahli of the UAE came from behind to defeat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,212,93,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-sepahan"],"views":1417,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51715","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=51715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51717,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51715\/revisions\/51717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}