{"id":27710,"date":"2017-04-09T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27710"},"modified":"2017-04-09T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T21:45:44","slug":"acl-md4-group-b-lekhwiya-vs-esteghlal-khouzestan-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/09\/acl-md4-group-b-lekhwiya-vs-esteghlal-khouzestan-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL MD4 &#8211; Group B: Lekhwiya vs. Esteghlal Khouzestan [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Lekhwiya can leapfrog Esteghlal Khouzestan should they hand the Group B leaders a first defeat of the 2017 AFC Champions League at Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ismail Mohamad cancelled out Hassan Beit Saeid\u2019s opener when the sides drew 1-1 in Ahwaz four weeks ago, while Lekhwiya&#8217;s Mohammed Tresor\u2019s late dismissal for a second bookable offence means he is ineligible for the return fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal Khouzestan have enjoyed an unbeaten start to their maiden continental campaign and won their previous away encounter 1-0 against Al Jazira. Avoid defeat in Qatar and they will edge ever closer to round of 16 qualification.<\/p>\n<p>But the Iranian champions go into the fixture having not won since early March and on the back of a 2-1 defeat to Mashhad in the Iran Pro League. In contrast, Lekhwiya have claimed back-to-back domestic wins against Al Jaish and Al Ahli since the sides last met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Lekhwiya can leapfrog Esteghlal Khouzestan should they hand the Group B leaders&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3484,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710","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=27710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}