{"id":17539,"date":"2014-03-11T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17539"},"modified":"2014-03-12T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:06:50","slug":"esteghlal-beaten-by-al-rayyan-in-afc-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/11\/esteghlal-beaten-by-al-rayyan-in-afc-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal beaten again in AFC Champions League [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran\u2019s Esteghlal lost to Al Rayyan of Qatar in the AFC Champions League (ACL) on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Doha\u2019s Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan defeated Esteghlal 1-0 in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian striker Kalu Uche opened the empty net for the host after Esteghlal goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati made a big mistake in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal was really unlucky in this match since the Iranian representative hit the bar twice.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal had lost to Al Shabab of Saudi Arabia 1-0 in its first match in a home game.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giant will host Al Jazira of the United Arab Emirates on March 18 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tdPkTYnodYA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tdPkTYnodYA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; DOHA, Iran\u2019s Esteghlal lost to Al Rayyan of Qatar in the AFC Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3729,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539","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=17539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}