After an easy 90 minutes in Azadi Stadium Esteghlal won Al Ittifaq and qualified for the next round of Asian Champions league .
Game held in Tehran in front of 60,000 spectators . Esteghlal had better performance in compare to Al Ittifaq and this resulted the first goal by G. Jerković assist by Ali Hamoodi in 37th minute . The french attacker received the ball and scored a fantastic goal .
After a short break , In second half time Yousef Al Salem tied the game . He scored in 59th minute assisted by Bashir Al Dosari .
Hosts didn’t give up and started their massive attacks , K. Heydari scored the second goal of Esteghlal with a nice pass from Arash Borhani . After only 3 minutes Arash Borhani opened Al Ittifaq for the third time after receiving a long pass from goalkeeper Rahmati .
V. Kovalenko , Uzbek refree showed 3 yellow cards .
Esteghlal should face with Al Rayyan in group stage on 06/03/12 . Al Jazira and Nasaf are other teams in group C of this tournament .
