{"id":12959,"date":"2012-05-21T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/21\/sepahan-esteghlal-acl-preview\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:13:04","slug":"sepahan-esteghlal-acl-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/21\/sepahan-esteghlal-acl-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan &#8211; Esteghlal ACL Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"sepahan-cheer22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sepahan-cheer22.jpg\" height=\"215\" width=\"330\" \/>GOAL &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>The newly-crowned Iranian champions play host to the Tehran giants in a last 16 clash which has captured the imagination of the public in the West Asian nation.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan clinched top spot in Group C last week with a 2-1 victory over Al Ahli with central defender Mohsen Bengar getting forward and popping up a late winner, having previously secured their qualification for the final 16. <\/p>\n<p>Coach Zlatko Kranjcar has little need to change the line-up of the Iranian champions although Hadi Jafari went off in the first-half against Al Ahli and is a doubt for this match. <\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Bruno Cesar and Xhevahir Sukaj have proved a handful for defences in this season&#8217;s ACL and they&#8217;ll be paired up front.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will welcome back a host of key players who miss their 2-0 win over Nasaf Qarshi due to suspension including Andranik Teymourian, Ali Hamoodi and Hanif Omranzadeh. <\/p>\n<p>However they will be without veteran full-back Mehdi Amirabadi after he was sent off against the Uzbek side. <\/p>\n<p>Teymourian should slot straight back into the midfield line-up, which will be led by Mojtaba Jabbari who scored from the spot against Nasaf.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Probable Lineups:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sepahan:<\/strong> Ahmadi &#8211; Jafari, Hosseini, Bengar, Ashjari &#8211; Ebrahimi, Karimian, Januario, Navidkia &#8211; Sukaj, Bruno Cesar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esteghlal:<\/strong> Rahmati &#8211; Heydari, Montazeri, Omranzadeh, Hosseini &#8211; Zandi, Teymourian, Jabbari, Samuel<br \/>&#8211; Borhani, Jerkovic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; ESFAHAN, The newly-crowned Iranian champions play host to the Tehran giants in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","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=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}