{"id":27273,"date":"2017-02-19T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27273"},"modified":"2017-02-19T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:57:01","slug":"acl-2017-md1-group-b-esteghlal-khouzestan-vs-al-fateh-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/19\/acl-2017-md1-group-b-esteghlal-khouzestan-vs-al-fateh-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 MD1 &#8211; Group B: Esteghlal Khouzestan vs. Al Fateh [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, <strong>Debutants Esteghlal Khouzestan of Islamic Republic of Iran will face off against Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Fateh at Qaboos Sports Complex as Group B of the AFC Champions League gets underway on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After claiming their first Iran Pro League title in 2016, the Ahwaz-based side find themselves well off the pace in mid-table in the current campaign and threw away a two-goal lead to lose 4-3 to Paykan in their most recent league encounter on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents Al Fateh will hope the continental competition comes as a welcome relief. Domestically they sit second from the bottom of the Saudi Professional League with less than half the season remaining and come into the clash on the back of a 2-0 reversal at the hands of Al Taawoun on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, Debutants Esteghlal Khouzestan of Islamic Republic of Iran will face off against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3108,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}