{"id":12900,"date":"2012-05-02T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/02\/denizli-fears-away-acl-round-of-16-clash\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T11:58:10","slug":"denizli-fears-away-acl-round-of-16-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/02\/denizli-fears-away-acl-round-of-16-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Denizli fears away ACL Round of 16 clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Denizli\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Denizli.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"352\" \/>GOAL &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Mustafa Denizli admits he fears the prospect of playing an AFC Champions League Round of 16 game away from home.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giants slipped up 1-0 at home to Al Hilal on Tuesday, handing the Saudi Arabian side top spot in Group D with a one-point advantage ahead of the final matchday.<\/p>\n<p>On matchday six, Al Hilal host third-placed Al Gharafa &#8211; who can still qualify &#8211; while Persepolis go to the eliminated Al Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we weren\u2019t lucky, but taking current circumstances into consideration, we most probably won\u2019t be playing our round of 16 match at home, which is not good,\u201d Denizli told reporters after the defeat in front of approximately 75,000 fans.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Al Hilal boss Ivan Hasek felt his side could have scored more goals to put the game to bed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we didn\u2019t do in the game was that we could have scored more goals, but we didn\u2019t,\u201d Hasek said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing is finished now because Piroozi still have the chance to lead the group again so we have to wait for the final matchday and see what happens at the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Mustafa Denizli admits he fears the prospect of playing an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2859,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}