{"id":12102,"date":"2018-04-04T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=12102"},"modified":"2018-04-04T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:50:52","slug":"al-hilal-eliminated-acl-group-stage-first-time-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/04\/al-hilal-eliminated-acl-group-stage-first-time-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Hilal eliminated from ACL group stage for the first time in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By\u00a0Assi Alghazali<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Al Hilal gets eliminated from the AFC Champions League for the first time for the past 12 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/12\/al-rayyan-aim-win-al-hilal-afc-champions-league\/\">Last year&#8217;s runners-up<\/a> were eliminated from the AFC Champions League 2018 after a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Al Ain.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hilal broke the deadlock with a free-kick goal by Mohammed Al Burayk seven minutes into the game.<\/p>\n<p>However, Al Ain\u2019s Marcus Berg levelled up five minutes before the half-time break by the penalty caused by the defender Ali Al Bulayhi.<\/p>\n<p>The Emirates team enhanced the pressure and earned the third penalty in the additional time of the half-time when Rayan Yslam was fouled by Fahad Al Rashidi.<\/p>\n<p>Berg sealed the 2-1 win for the\u00a0home team, thus killed all Al Hilal&#8217;s hopes in this season&#8217;s AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ain will face Al Rayyan in Qatar in the battle for the group&#8217;s second Round of 16 tickets, trying to follow Iran&#8217;s Esteghlal into the knockout stage qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Assi Alghazali Al Hilal gets eliminated from the AFC Champions League for the first time for the past 12 years. Last year&#8217;s runners-up were eliminated from the AFC Champions League 2018 after a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Al Ain. Al Hilal broke the deadlock with a free-kick goal by Mohammed Al Burayk seven minutes into the game. However, Al Ain\u2019s Marcus Berg levelled up five minutes before the half-time break by the penalty caused by the defender Ali Al Bulayhi. The Emirates team enhanced the pressure and earned the third penalty in the additional time of the half-time when Rayan Yslam was fouled by Fahad Al Rashidi. Berg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/04\/al-hilal-eliminated-acl-group-stage-first-time-12-years\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Al Hilal eliminated from ACL group stage for the first time in 12 years&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,45],"tags":[1035,1318,505],"class_list":["post-12102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-champions-league","category-saudi-arabia","tag-2018-afc-champions-league","tag-al-ain-fc","tag-al-hilal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}