{"id":51931,"date":"2024-09-16T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51931"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:19:35","slug":"esteghlal-ease-past-al-gharafa-in-afc-champions-league-elite-2024-25-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/09\/16\/esteghlal-ease-past-al-gharafa-in-afc-champions-league-elite-2024-25-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal ease past Al Gharafa in AFC Champions League Elite 2024\/25 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s Esteghlal FC secured a comfortable 3-0 victory over Al Gharafa of Qatar in their AFC Champions League Elite 2024\/25 opener at the Shahr-e Qods Stadium on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Abdalla Yousif&#8217;s own goal separated the sides going into the break before further efforts from Ramin Rezaeian and Arash Rezavand sealed the win for Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal started brightly and their early pressure led to the opener in the fourth minute after Yousif turned Ramin Rezaeian\u2019s cross from the right flank into his own net.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal doubled the lead after Rezaeian nutmegged Matias Nani on the right flank before striking a grounded effort past Ababacar.<\/p>\n<p>Rezavand put the game beyond Al Gharafa\u2019s reach when he struck the ball home off a counter-attacking move in the 88th minute to seal the three points.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Esteghlal is a trip to Qatar where they will face Al Sadd, while Al Gharafa meet United Arab Emirates\u2019 Al Ain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0627\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u064a\u0631\u0627\u0646\u064a 3-0 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0631\u0627\u0641\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0637\u0631\u064a | \u062f\u0648\u0631\u064a \u0623\u0628\u0637\u0627\u0644 \u0622\u0633\u064a\u0627 \u0644\u0644\u0646\u062e\u0628\u0629\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gaO2Yfx1qc0?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, Iran\u2019s Esteghlal FC secured a comfortable 3-0 victory over Al Gharafa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":1468,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931","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=51931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51933,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931\/revisions\/51933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}