{"id":27837,"date":"2017-04-23T08:29:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27837"},"modified":"2017-04-23T08:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:29:03","slug":"acl-2017-md5-group-c-zobahan-vs-al-ain-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/23\/acl-2017-md5-group-c-zobahan-vs-al-ain-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 MD5 &#8211; Group C: Zobahan vs. Al Ain [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Only a point separates second-placed Zobahan and third-placed Al Ain in Group C of the AFC Champions League ahead of the sides\u2019 crucial meeting at Foolad Shahr Stadium on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back wins over Bunyodkor saw Zobahan leapfrog the Emirati side into second place in the standings and a third victory on the bounce would see a return to the last 16, where they lost to Al Ain in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors remain unbeaten but Ah Ahli\u2019s late leveler in a 2-2 draw two weeks ago put a dent in their qualification hopes. Since last appearing on the continent, Al Ain have suffered a 4-3 defeat to Al Wasl in the Arabian Gulf League while, conversely, Zobahan have won two from two domestically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ISFAHAN, Only a point separates second-placed Zobahan and third-placed Al Ain in Group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3507,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837","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=27837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}