{"id":27834,"date":"2017-04-22T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27834"},"modified":"2017-04-22T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:58:18","slug":"persepolis-to-face-al-hilal-without-three-key-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/22\/persepolis-to-face-al-hilal-without-three-key-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis to face Al Hilal without three key players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MUSCAT,<strong> Iran\u2019s Persepolis have a difficult task against Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia because their three key players are absent for the crucial match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis captain Seyyed Jalal Hosseini and the team\u2019s playmaker Soroush Rafiei are suspended for the match after receiving second yellow card during Al Rayyan match in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds\u2019 defender Mohammad Ansari is also a doubt for this match due to a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will meet Al Hilal in Matchday 5 of the AFC Champions League at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat, Oman on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis drew 1-1 with Al Hilal on Matchday One and to seal their last 16 berth must overcome their Saudi opponents.<\/p>\n<p>If Persepolis fail to defeat Al Hilal, Al Rayyan would also advance with a win over Al Wahda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MUSCAT, Iran\u2019s Persepolis have a difficult task against Al Hilal of Saudi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4849,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27834","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=27834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}