{"id":27370,"date":"2017-02-28T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27370"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:00:42","slug":"esteghlal-favorites-to-advance-to-acl-round-of-16-alireza-mansourian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/28\/esteghlal-favorites-to-advance-to-acl-round-of-16-alireza-mansourian\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Esteghlal favorites to advance to ACL round of 16&#8221;: Alireza Mansourian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal coach Alireza Mansourian says that they are the first chance to book a place in the AFC Champions League next stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal football team started the campaign with a 2-1 defeat to the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Al Ahli in its opening game of the tournament last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team defeated Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Taawoun 3-0 in Group A at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God we won the match since we needed to win. We had analyzed Al Taawoun well and could bag three important points,\u201d Mansourian said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that Al Taawoun has good strikers but we also knew that they have conceded so many goals. To score three goals is not an easy job but we did it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal is the favorite to advance to the next stage,\u201d Mansourian concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal coach Alireza Mansourian says that they are the first chance to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3363,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370","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=27370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}