{"id":17535,"date":"2014-03-10T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T05:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2014-03-10T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T05:26:47","slug":"vital-games-for-irans-representatives-in-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/10\/vital-games-for-irans-representatives-in-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital games for Iran\u2019s representatives in ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>The Iranian football teams, Esteghlal and Foolad, will play Qatar\u2019s Al Rayyan and Al Fateh of Saudi Arabia, respectively, in the second match-day of the 2014 AFC Champions League on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal suffered a home defeat in the first match-day against Al Shabab of Saudi Arabia in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team will play Al Rayyan in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Tuesday. Al Shabab will also play Al Jazira of the UAE in the group.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal remains rooted to the foot of the table without any point. The Iranian outfit should not lose against its Qatari rival at least.<\/p>\n<p>Al Shabab and Al Jazira are first and second with three points and Al Rayyan is third without any point.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Foolad of Khuzestan will host Al Fateh of Saudi Arabia in Ahvaz in Group B of the competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Hossein Faraki\u2019s team earned a valuable goalless draw against Al Jaish of Qatar in Doha on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Bunyodkor of Uzbekistan will host Al Jaish in this group.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad needs to get all three points in its home game match.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Sepahan and Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia are among the tournament&#8217;s most experiences sides as this year&#8217;s edition marks their tenth continental appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, The Iranian football teams, Esteghlal and Foolad, will play Qatar\u2019s Al Rayyan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3825,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535","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=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}