{"id":27337,"date":"2017-02-26T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27337"},"modified":"2017-02-26T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T22:54:32","slug":"acl-2017-md2-group-b-al-jazira-vs-esteghlal-khouzestan-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/26\/acl-2017-md2-group-b-al-jazira-vs-esteghlal-khouzestan-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 MD2 &#8211; Group B: Al Jazira vs. Esteghlal Khouzestan [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Al Jazira go into Monday\u2019s 2017 AFC Champions League Group B encounter with Esteghlal Khouzestan at Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium desperate to end a miserable run of form in the competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Emirati side\u2019s 3-0 reversal to Lekhwiya on Matchday One was their 10th game without a win on the continent, while their record against Iranian opposition does not read much better, having lost three and drawn one of their past four matches.<\/p>\n<p>No such worries for Esteghlal Khouzestan, however, as the debutants celebrated a 1-0 victory over Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Fateh on their first ever AFC Champions League appearance as they joined Qatar\u2019s Lekhwiya as the early pace-setters in Group B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ABU DHABI, Al Jazira go into Monday\u2019s 2017 AFC Champions League Group B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2832,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337","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=27337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337\/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=27337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}