{"id":36706,"date":"2025-12-22T22:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/tractor-book-spot-in-afc-champions-league-elite-round-of-16\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:15:01","slug":"tractor-book-spot-in-afc-champions-league-elite-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/tractor-book-spot-in-afc-champions-league-elite-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor book spot in AFC Champions League Elite Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5837777.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Tractor football club booked their spot in the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League Elite 2025\/26 after fighting back to defeat Al Duhail SC 2-1 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">The win means that with 14 points, Dragan Skocic\u2019s side are guaranteed a top eight finish while Djamel Belmadi\u2019s Al Duhail still have much to do if they are to advance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">Against the run of play, Al Duhail broke the deadlock eight minutes later after Mohammad Naderi tripped Edmilson Junior in the box, with Benjamin Bourigeaud confidently dispatching his penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">Tractor began the second half in determined fashion, Bautista Burke needing to come out of his goal line to block Mahdi Hashmenezhad after Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh played a delightful through ball for the midfielder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">The equalizer came shortly after on 51 minutes after Tibor Halilovic\u2019s curling free-kick struck the upright with captain Shojae Khalilzadeh staying calm to sidefoot home the rebound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">Just when it looked like the match was going to end in a stalemate, Hosseinzadeh secured the win for Tractor in stoppage time when his deflected shot from distance flew past Burke.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/521989\/Tractor-book-spot-in-AFC-Champions-League-Elite-Round-of-16\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Tractor football club booked their spot in the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League Elite 2025\/26 after fighting back to defeat Al Duhail SC 2-1 on Monday. The win means that with 14 points, Dragan Skocic\u2019s side are guaranteed a top eight finish while Djamel Belmadi\u2019s Al Duhail still have much &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-36706","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\/36706","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=36706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}