{"id":53862,"date":"2025-09-17T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53862"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:57:21","slug":"al-wasl-upset-esteghlal-at-2025-26-acl-two-matchweek-1-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/09\/17\/al-wasl-upset-esteghlal-at-2025-26-acl-two-matchweek-1-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Wasl upset Esteghlal at 2025\/26 ACL Two Matchweek 1 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>UAE\u2019s Al Wasl FC got their AFC Champions League Two 2025\/26 Group A campaign off to a fine start after breezing 7-1 past Esteghlal of Iran on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fabio Lima and Renato Junior led the way with braces as five players found the net in a commanding display from Al Wasl.<\/p>\n<p>Lima gave Al Wasl the perfect start, the UAE international opening the scoring in the seventh minute with a stunning left-footed strike from outside the box which arrowed into the top left corner.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts doubled their advantage five minutes later when Nicolas Gim\u00e9nez found space in the center of the box and finished clinically with his left foot into the top right corner.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Malheiro then made it 3-0 in the 41st minute, latching onto a clever through ball from Serginho before squeezing his shot past keeper Antonio Adan from an acute angle.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal tried to claw their way back and almost reduced the deficit in the closing stages of the half when Alireza Koushki\u2019s effort from outside the box rattled the frame of the goal.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors finally found a breakthrough at the stroke of half-time as Rouzbeh Cheshmi finished smartly from the center of the area.<\/p>\n<p>There was no respite for Esteghlal after the break as they conceded a penalty following Duckens Nazon\u2019s foul on Renato Junior, allowing Lima to restore Al Wasl\u2019s three-goal cushion with a cool finish from the spot in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Junior added the fifth in the 71st minute, firing a low shot into the bottom left corner from close range with Soufiane Bouftini etching his name on the scoresheet with a powerful header in the 84th, having rattled the bar moments earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Junior then completed the emphatic win in the first minute of added time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Al Wasl LIGHT UP the opener with 7 GOALS! | Al Wasl \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddea vs Esteghlal \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 | Highlights ACL Two\u2122\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JyoHrGlJuSU?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; DUBAI, UAE\u2019s Al Wasl FC got their AFC Champions League Two 2025\/26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":1774,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862","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=53862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53864,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862\/revisions\/53864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}