{"id":27839,"date":"2017-04-23T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27839"},"modified":"2017-04-23T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:32:25","slug":"acl-2017-md5-group-d-al-hilal-vs-persepolis-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/23\/acl-2017-md5-group-d-al-hilal-vs-persepolis-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 MD5 &#8211; Group D: Al Hilal vs. Persepolis [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, <strong>Al Hilal will open up an unassailable lead over opponents Persepolis and advance to the last 16 of the AFC Champions League should they defeat the Iranian side in Group D at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Saudi team, who have Nawaf Al Abid available after suspension, currently sit three points ahead of Persepolis and warmed up for the encounter with a 2-1 victory over Al Shabab to seal the Saudi Pro League title.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to win since Matchday Two has seen opponents Persepolis drop to third place in the standings and leaves them in need of a victory. They will be without suspended duo Jalal Hosseini and Soroush Rafieitelgary but go into the tie on a high after being crowned Iran Pro League champions since last appearing on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, Al Hilal will open up an unassailable lead over opponents Persepolis and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4481,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839","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=27839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}