{"id":55517,"date":"2026-10-27T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55517"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T22:50:03","slug":"acl-elite-azmoun-assists-twice-to-help-shabab-al-ahli-defeat-esteghlal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/10\/27\/acl-elite-azmoun-assists-twice-to-help-shabab-al-ahli-defeat-esteghlal-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Elite: Azmoun assists twice to help Shabab Al Ahli defeat Esteghlal [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Msn.com &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Shabab Al Ahli maintained their perfect record in the AFC Champions League Elite 2026\/27&#x2122; with a 2-0 victory over Islamic Republic of Iran&#8217;s Esteghlal FC at the Rashid Stadium on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates side moved up to nine points while Esteghlal\u2019s winning run came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Shabab had an early break with Wout Faes sending a through ball to Mohammad Juma at the top of the area in the 10th minute but the forward was muscled out of possession by the Esteghlal defence.<\/p>\n<p>Kauan Santos then almost exposed Esteghlal&#8217;s defence in the 14th minute when he sent Sardar Azmoun through on goal, but Esteghlal goalkeeper Habib Far Abbasi stood his ground and denied the forward.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal had their first look on goal in the 17th minute when Saleh Hardani drilled his free-kick into the palms of Shabab goalkeeper Matheus Donelli, before Breno failed to connect to Santos\u2019 curling delivery moments later.<\/p>\n<p>Another chance went begging for Shabab in the 24th minute, with Santos again the orchestrator when his set-piece picked out Saeid Ezatolahi, who volleyed over the bar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shabab Al Ahli \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddea vs Esteghlal FC \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 | Highlights ACL Elite\u2122\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8PGaMobC6a4?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>Msn.com &#8211; DUBAI, Shabab Al Ahli maintained their perfect record in the AFC Champions League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,212,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55517","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"],"views":155,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55517","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=55517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55519,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55517\/revisions\/55519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}