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Socceroo Jason Davidson featured earlier in the tournament but was not included in the squad for the final, in which VAR was pivotal - with referee Abdulrahman Al Jassim having to go to the pitchside monitor to award both of Ulsan s spot-kicks, which were both conceded by Mehdi Shiri.
They came either side of half-time, with Persepolis – in search of a maiden Champions League crown after losing the 2018 final – going ahead through Mehdi Abdi Qara s 45th-minute goal.
Ultimately, though, Shiri s clumsiness cost the Iranian side, with Negrao s seventh goal of the tournament enough to seal Ulsan s success.
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Ulsan Hyundai Motors won the Asian Champions League for the second time in history after a Junior Negrao double gave them a 2-1 victory over Iran’s Persepolis on Saturday.
The South Korean giants also achieved the feat in record fashion, winning their ninth consecutive match in the tournament to equal their winning streak of 2012 when they won the title for the first time.
But this time they were even more emphatic, scoring at least two goals in each match on their way to the title, an unprecedented achievement in the tournament.
Persepolis missed out on the Asian crown for the second time in three years, having lost to Japan’s Kashima Antlers in the final in 2018.