{"id":17435,"date":"2014-02-26T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17435"},"modified":"2014-02-26T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:19:08","slug":"losses-for-esteghlal-and-sepahan-in-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/02\/26\/losses-for-esteghlal-and-sepahan-in-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Losses for Esteghlal and Sepahan in ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Besides Foolad Khuzestan&#8217;s goalless draw and Tractorsazi&#8217;s much celebrated win, the other two Iranian clubs suffered defeats on matchday 1 of AFC&#8217;s Champions League.<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Wednesday, Sepahan Esfahan could make up a one goal deficit in their away game with Al Sadd through a beautiful goal from youngster Mehdi Sharifi, but two late goals from the Qataris sealed Sepahan&#8217;s destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Already on Tuesday, Esteghlal suffered a bitter 0-1 home defeat to Saudi&#8217;s Al Shabab in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC Champions League season will be a short one for all the Iranian national team players in the participating club, as after round 4 all of them need to report to the national team camp, therefore missing out the final two matches of the group stage and a possible 1\/8 final match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Besides Foolad Khuzestan&#8217;s goalless draw and Tractorsazi&#8217;s much celebrated win, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3836,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435","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=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}