{"id":28143,"date":"2017-05-22T12:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28143"},"modified":"2017-05-22T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T19:38:42","slug":"acl-2017-round-of-16-esteghlal-khouzestan-vs-al-hilal-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/22\/acl-2017-round-of-16-esteghlal-khouzestan-vs-al-hilal-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 Round of 16: Esteghlal Khouzestan vs. Al Hilal [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, <strong>Debutants Esteghlal Khouzestan will face perennial 2017 AFC Champions League knockout stage qualifiers Al Hilal in the first-leg of the Round of 16 at Seeb Sports Complex on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal Khouzestan have been one of the surprise packages of the competition having progressed from Group B in their maiden appearance on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hilal, meanwhile, are no strangers to this stage of the tournament and are participating in the last 16 for the ninth successive time.<\/p>\n<p>When last facing Saudi opposition, Esteghlal Khouzestan won one and drew one against Al Fateh in the group stage while Al Hilal, who claimed the Saudi Arabian King\u2019s Cup following a 3-2 win over Al Ahli on Friday, played out successive draws with Persepolis in their encounters with Iranian opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Farshad Salarvand is available for Esteghlal Khouzestan after suspension as is Mohammed Al Burayk for Al Hilal.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hilal will, however, be without Abdullah Otayf and Mohammed Jahfali after the duo were yellow carded in the 4-3 Matchday Six victory over Al Rayyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MUSCAT, Debutants Esteghlal Khouzestan will face perennial 2017 AFC Champions League knockout stage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news"],"views":4426,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","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=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}