Malaysia’s Johor Darul Ta’zim advanced to the Asian Champions League quarter-finals despite a second-leg loss to Japan’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima \u00a9 STR \/ JIJI PRESS\/AFP <\/p>\n
TOKYO: <\/p>\n
Malaysia’s Johor Darul Ta’zim reached the Asian Champions League quarter-finals for the first time despite a 1-0 loss to Japan’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Wednesday, advancing 3-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n
Japan’s Vissel Kobe joined them in the last eight after beating South Korea’s FC Seoul 2-1 in the second leg for a 3-1 aggregate win.<\/p>\n
JDT did just enough to frustrate Sanfrecce in a scrappy second leg in Hiroshima.<\/p>\n
Kosuke Kinoshita’s 90th-minute penalty was not enough for Sanfrecce, who were also looking to reach the quarter-finals for the first time.<\/p>\n
“To suffer today, to be able to keep the result in a really difficult game, to make history for the team, for the club — very proud of everybody,” said JDT midfielder Nacho Mendez.<\/p>\n
“It’s like a dream for everybody.”<\/p>\n
JDT were unable to select three players who have been banned for falsifying documents to play for the Malaysia national team.<\/p>\n
The players were available for last week’s first leg before the case went before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which upheld the ban.<\/p>\n
One of the players, Brazil-born Joao Figueiredo, started the first leg in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Kobe went into the second leg of their game against Seoul with a 1-0 lead from last week’s first leg in South Korea.<\/p>\n
Seoul’s Polish striker Patryk Klimala evened the tie 20 minutes in but Kobe substitute Yuya Osako slid home a Yoshinori Muto cross with just over 10 minutes to play.<\/p>\n
Yosuke Ideguchi gave Kobe some breathing space with a second goal in the 89th minute.<\/p>\n
The Asian Champions League becomes a single-leg knock-out competition from the quarter-finals onwards, with all games set to be played in Saudi Arabia next month.<\/p>\n
The Asian Football Confederation last week postponed last-16 matches played by clubs in the Middle East after the US and Israeli strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malaysia’s Johor Darul Ta’zim advanced to the Asian Champions League quarter-finals despite a second-leg loss to Japan’s Sanfrecce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[92079,85,46,164259,12437,164260,105],"class_list":["post-333874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asian-champions-league","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jdt","tag-malaysia","tag-sanfrecce-hiroshima","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}