{"id":51925,"date":"2024-09-16T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51925"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:54:41","slug":"persepolis-edged-by-al-ahli-in-afc-champions-league-elite-2024-25-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/09\/16\/persepolis-edged-by-al-ahli-in-afc-champions-league-elite-2024-25-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis edged by Al Ahli in AFC Champions League Elite 2024\/25 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli Saudi secured a winning start to their AFC Champions League Elite 2024\/25 campaign by defeating Persepolis of Iran 1-0 on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frank Kessie\u2019s early goal settled the contest at Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium in a game, which saw both teams creating plenty of chances only to be let down by poor finishing.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahli needed only two minutes to storm into the lead when Riyad Mahrez picked out the run of Kessie, who controlled the ball without breaking stride before slamming an unstoppable shot past Alexis Guendouz.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the first half, Persepolis were awarded a penalty following Merih Demiral\u2019s foul on Oston Uronov but referee Adam Makhadneh changed his decision following a VAR review.  <\/p>\n<p>The home side threatened to double their lead after the break but Ivan Toney was denied by a smart Guendouz save while Roger Ibanez headed wide from a Demiral pass.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahli were handed a golden opportunity to get a second after Toney was brought down by Hossein Kanani in the box but Mahrez\u2019s spot-kick was well saved by Guendouz just before the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Com gol rel\u00e2mpago de Kessi\u00e9, Al Ahli vence Persepolis pela Liga dos Campe\u00f5es da \u00c1sia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DyltsyiyLvY?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; TEHRAN, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli Saudi secured a winning start to their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-persepolis"],"views":1849,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51925","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=51925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51927,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51925\/revisions\/51927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}