{"id":30856,"date":"2018-02-19T10:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30856"},"modified":"2018-02-19T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:12:51","slug":"afc-champions-league-group-c-al-sadd-sc-vs-persepolis-fc-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/19\/afc-champions-league-group-c-al-sadd-sc-vs-persepolis-fc-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Champions League: Group C: Al Sadd SC vs. Persepolis FC [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>After winning their opening AFC Champions League fixtures, Al Sadd and Persepolis will be looking to open up a three-point lead at the top of Group C when they clash at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baghdad Bounedjah came off the bench to net a late double as 2011 champions Al Sadd came from a goal down to defeat the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Al Wasl last week as the Qatari side enjoyed a winning start on their return to continental action.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-finalists last year, Persepolis cruised to victory in their opening game of the tournament after Godwin Mensha opened the scoring and Ali Alipour added a second-half brace as the Islamic Republic of Iran team swept aside Uzbekistan\u2019s Nasaf.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first-ever meeting between the sides in the AFC Champions League, but Persepolis arrive with happy memories of their previous trip to Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium when they defeated Lekhwiya 1-0 in last year\u2019s Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, After winning their opening AFC Champions League fixtures, Al Sadd and Persepolis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30856","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":1419,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30856","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=30856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30858,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30856\/revisions\/30858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}