{"id":36537,"date":"2025-11-27T01:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/esteghlal-al-wasl-share-spoils-in-2025-26-acl-two\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:08:54","slug":"esteghlal-al-wasl-share-spoils-in-2025-26-acl-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/esteghlal-al-wasl-share-spoils-in-2025-26-acl-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal, Al Wasl share spoils in 2025\/26 ACL Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5797985.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Al Wasl earned a hard-fought 1-1 draw with Esteghlal on Wednesday to book their berth in the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League Two 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The stalemate took the United Arab Emirates side to 11 points, confirming them as the Group A winners with a match to spare while Esteghlal will slug it out with Bahrain\u2019s Al Muharraq SC to determine who also advances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Esteghlal imposed themselves on the game early on, opening the scoring in the sixth minute after great work from Esmaeil Gholizadeh who dribbled along the goal-line only to see his initial attempt blocked by Khaled Aljneibi before sending the rebound to Saeid Saharkhizan for a tap-in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In the 63rd minute, Hugo Goncalves exchanged passes with Serginho before sweeping the ball into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The goal woke Esteghlal up from their slumber but despite attempts from Jasir Asani and Hossein Goodarzi, they had to settle with a point.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/520899\/Esteghlal-Al-Wasl-share-spoils-in-2025-26-ACL-Two\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Al Wasl earned a hard-fought 1-1 draw with Esteghlal on Wednesday to book their berth in the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League Two 2025\/26. The stalemate took the United Arab Emirates side to 11 points, confirming them as the Group A winners with a match to spare while Esteghlal will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-36537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}