{"id":17878,"date":"2014-04-17T04:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17878"},"modified":"2014-04-17T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T19:19:38","slug":"esteghlal-knocked-out-of-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/04\/17\/esteghlal-knocked-out-of-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal Knocked Out of ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; RIYADH, <strong>Iran\u2019s Esteghlal football team was eliminated from the AFC Champions League after a 2-1 defeat against Al Shabab of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s giant blues needed a win to keep alive its hopes of reaching the knock-out stage in Group A. The Iranian outfit took the lead with a diving header by Pejman Nouri early in the second half at the King Fahd International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>With eight minute remaining, Fernando Menegazzo equalized the match from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>In the dying moments of the match, Saeed Al Dossari made it 2-1 for the host and Al Shabab moved top of the group with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazira of the United Arab Emirates beat Qatari side Al Rayyan 3-2 in the group and bagged 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Al Rayyan were knocked out from the group stage with four and three points respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; RIYADH, Iran\u2019s Esteghlal football team was eliminated from the AFC Champions League after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":4374,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878","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=17878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}