{"id":28000,"date":"2017-05-08T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T18:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28000"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T18:46:28","slug":"esteghlal-needs-a-point-against-al-taawoun-to-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/08\/esteghlal-needs-a-point-against-al-taawoun-to-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal needs a point against Al Taawoun to advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Esteghlal football team of Iran will progress to the 2017 AFC Champions League Round of 16 should they claim a point against Al Taawoun at Al Ahli SC Stadium in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al Taawoun sits three points adrift of second-placed Esteghlal in Group A, meaning a win would move the Saudi outfit level with its opponent on eight points, although a four-goal winning margin is required in order to gain the superior head-to-head record after Esteghlal ran out 3-0 victors in the corresponding fixture in February.<\/p>\n<p>Kaveh Rezaei\u2019s second-half equalizer against Al Ahli of the United Arab Emirates two weeks ago secured a 1-1 draw and took Esteghlal within a point of advancing before the Tehran-based team won two on the bounce in the Iranian Pro League, the-afc.com wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Al Taawoun, who suffered a 2-1 defeat to Al Ahli in the Saudi Professional League on Friday, played out one of the most entertaining matches of the tournament on Matchday Five as Ricardo Machado\u2019s injury-time equalizer ensured a 4-4 draw with Lokomotiv.<\/p>\n<p>It now must win to have any chance of progression but will have to do so without the suspended Naif Mousa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Esteghlal football team of Iran will progress to the 2017 AFC Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4447,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28000","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=28000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}