{"id":28215,"date":"2017-05-29T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28215"},"modified":"2017-05-29T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:24:41","slug":"acl-2017-round-of-16-2nd-leg-al-hilal-vs-esteghlal-khouzestan-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/29\/acl-2017-round-of-16-2nd-leg-al-hilal-vs-esteghlal-khouzestan-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 Round of 16 &#8211; 2nd leg: Al Hilal vs. Esteghlal Khouzestan [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>A draw will be enough to see Al Hilal qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2017 AFC Champions League as the Saudi Arabian side prepare for the second-leg of their Round of 16 clash with Esteghlal Khouzestan on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second-half goals from Abdulla Al Dossary and Carlos Eduardo saw Al Hilal come from a goal down to claim a 2-1 victory in the first-leg to make the Riyadh-based team firm favourites to advance ahead of the clash at Thani Bin Jassim Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal Khouzestan must score at least two to have any chance of making the last eight, something they have failed to do in seven matches on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Otayf returns from suspension for Al Hilal, whose impressive form to date has seen them win four and draw three of their seven fixtures in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, A draw will be enough to see Al Hilal qualify for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28215","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-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":5002,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215","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=28215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215\/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=28215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}