{"id":30981,"date":"2018-03-04T09:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30981"},"modified":"2018-03-04T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T17:46:17","slug":"asian-champions-league-group-a-al-jazira-vs-tractor-sazi-tabriz-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/04\/asian-champions-league-group-a-al-jazira-vs-tractor-sazi-tabriz-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Champions League: Group A &#8211; Al Jazira vs. Tractor Sazi Tabriz [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Having suffered a 2-1 reversal to AFC Champions League Group A leaders Al Ahli Saudi FC two weeks ago, Al Jazira will look for a positive response when they host Tractorsazi Tabriz at Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Emirati side defeated Al Gharafa 3-2 in their previous home match to bring an end to a 15-game winless run and will seek another strong performance in front of their own fans, although they will be without the suspended Mbark Boussoufa.<\/p>\n<p>Tractorsazi, meanwhile, are rooted to the bottom of the table, having lost their opening game to Al Ahli and then being defeated 3-0 by Al Gharafa on Matchday Two. The Iranian team, who have Mohammad Iranpourian suspended, are still looking for their first point and goal of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazira and Tractorsazi last faced off in the 2016 group stage, with the side from Tabriz winning 4-0 at home before claiming a 1-0 victory in Abu Dhabi as they advanced to the knockout rounds as table-toppers while the Emirati team were eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ABU DHABI, Having suffered a 2-1 reversal to AFC Champions League Group A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30981","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":1302,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981","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=30981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30991,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions\/30991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}