{"id":47577,"date":"2025-04-30T21:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47577"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:36:57","slug":"firmino-and-toney-score-as-al-ahli-reaches-asian-champions-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/firmino-and-toney-score-as-al-ahli-reaches-asian-champions-league-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmino and Toney Score as Al-Ahli Reaches Asian Champions League Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Firmino and Ivan Toney scored as Al-Ahli beat Al-Hilal 3-1 to reach the final of the Asian Champions League on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe all-Saudi Arabian semifinal was played before more than 50,000 fans at King Abdullah Sports City stadium in Al-Ahli\u2019s home city.<br \/>\nAl-Ahli will take on the winner of Wednesday\u2019s clash between Al-Nassr, also of Saudi Arabia, and Japan\u2019s Kawasaki Frontale in Sunday\u2019s final.<br \/>\n\u201cAl-Ahli was the better team,\u201d Al-Hilal coach Jorge Jesus said. \u201cThis was a game between two good teams and while we had some good periods in the game, they outperformed us.\u201d<br \/>\nIt took just nine minutes for Al-Ahli to open the scoring as Firmino, who joined the club from Liverpool in 2023, shot home from inside the area.<br \/>\nJust before the half-hour, ex-Manchester City forward Riyad Mahrez set up Toney for the England striker to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Firmino and Ivan Toney scored as Al-Ahli beat Al-Hilal 3-1 to reach the final of the Asian Champions League on Tuesday. The all-Saudi Arabian semifinal was played before more than 50,000 fans at King Abdullah Sports City stadium in Al-Ahli\u2019s home city. Al-Ahli will take on the winner of Wednesday\u2019s clash between Al-Nassr, also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47578,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47577\/revisions\/47578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}