{"id":55472,"date":"2026-10-13T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55472"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:05:53","slug":"esteghlal-beat-al-gharafa-in-2026-27-acl-elite-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/10\/13\/esteghlal-beat-al-gharafa-in-2026-27-acl-elite-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal beat Al Gharafa in 2026\/27 ACL Elite [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AL RAYYAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team edged Qatar\u2019s Al Gharafa 2-1 to secure their second win in the AFC Champions League Elite 2026\/2027 at the Thani Bin Jassim Stadium on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ferjani Sassi\u2019s 48th-minute goal cancelled out a stunning strike by Jasir Asani in the first half before Hossein Goudarzi\u2019s 60th-minute winner ensured the Iran outfit finished with another three points.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will play Shabab Al Ahli of the UAE at the Rashid Stadium on Oct. 27 in Matchweek 3.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Esteghlal survive nervy finish! | Al Gharafa \ud83c\uddf6\ud83c\udde6 vs Esteghlal FC \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 | Highlights ACL Elite\u2122\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ETd58SQGNOM?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; AL RAYYAN, Esteghlal football team edged Qatar\u2019s Al Gharafa 2-1 to secure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-leagues-clubs"],"views":96,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55472","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=55472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55474,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55472\/revisions\/55474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}