{"id":28217,"date":"2017-05-29T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28217"},"modified":"2017-05-29T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:29:58","slug":"acl-2017-round-of-16-2nd-leg-lekhwiya-vs-persepolis-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/29\/acl-2017-round-of-16-2nd-leg-lekhwiya-vs-persepolis-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2017 Round of 16 &#8211; 2nd leg: Lekhwiya vs. Persepolis [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Lekhwiya go into Tuesday\u2019s 2017 AFC Champions League Round of 16 second-leg tie with Persepolis at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium looking to maintain their perfect home record and advance to a third quarter-final in five years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hosts have won all three of their games in Doha and, after a scoreless draw in Tehran last week, will book their place in the next round should they continue that impressive run.<\/p>\n<p>A score draw would be enough for Persepolis to progress and they will look to their tournament-leading scorer Mehdi Taremi, who missed a late penalty in the first leg, to fire them into the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian champions lost 3-1 to Al Rayyan on their last trip to Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, where Lekhwiya\u2019s Almoez Ali will be available again after serving a one-match ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Lekhwiya go into Tuesday\u2019s 2017 AFC Champions League Round of 16 second-leg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28217","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":4875,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28217","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=28217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}