{"id":11479,"date":"2010-09-13T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/13\/zobahan-irn-v-pohang-steelers-kor-preview\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T15:50:18","slug":"zobahan-irn-v-pohang-steelers-kor-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/13\/zobahan-irn-v-pohang-steelers-kor-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Zobahan (IRN) v Pohang Steelers (KOR) &#8211; PREVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; <strong>Zobahan host holders Pohang Steelers at the Foolad Shahr Stadium  in <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranproleague.net\/components\/com_lr\/assets\/images\/teams\/zob%20ahan.jpg\" \/>confident mood after enjoying a strong start to the 2010-11 Iran Pro  League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Esfahan club, league runners-up in the last two  seasons, are currently two points clear at the top after beating Tractor  Sazi 2-1 on Friday. Goals from right-back Mohammad Hosseini and striker  Mohammad Ghazi secured their sixth win in eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Iran  international Mohammad Khalatbari is the Greens&#8217; leading striker, while  other current internationals include Hosseini, midfielder Ghasem  Hadadifar and goalkeeper Shahab Gordan.<\/p>\n<p>Pohang have gone off the  boil after K-League losses to Jeonbuk and FC Seoul earlier this month  ended a run of five unbeaten games under former assistant coach Park  Chang-hyun, who took over from Waldemar Lemos ahead of the round of 16  in May.<\/p>\n<p>Seol Ki-hyeon could make his AFC Champions League debut  and recently scored three goals in four K-League games as the  31-year-old former international begins to make up for an  injury-stricken few months since joining from Fulham in January.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian  strikers Mota and Almir were joined by compatriot Zulu in August, while  Japanese defender Kazunari Okayama is the club&#8217;s \u2018Asian&#8217; player.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Zobahan host holders Pohang Steelers at the Foolad Shahr Stadium in confident mood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":5715,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}