{"id":27339,"date":"2017-02-26T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T22:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27339"},"modified":"2017-02-26T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T22:56:36","slug":"acl-2017-md2-group-a-esteghlal-tehran-vs-al-taawoun-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/26\/acl-2017-md2-group-a-esteghlal-tehran-vs-al-taawoun-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 MD2 &#8211; Group A: Esteghlal Tehran vs. Al Taawoun [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, <strong>Esteghlal are aiming to end a run of three successive defeats to Saudi Arabian opposition when they take on debutants Al Taawoun in Group A of the 2017 AFC Champions League on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian side went down 2-1 to the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Al Ahli in their opening game of the tournament and have now failed to keep a clean sheet in nine of their previous 10 fixtures on the continent ahead of the encounter at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Al Taawoun, meanwhile, will go into the fixture with confidence after Constantin Galca\u2019s side enjoyed a perfect start to their maiden AFC Champions League campaign as captain Talal Al Absi\u2019s second-half goal saw off Lokomotiv to delight a packed King Abdullah Stadium in Buraidah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, Esteghlal are aiming to end a run of three successive defeats to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2929,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339","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=27339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}