{"id":31073,"date":"2018-03-10T23:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T07:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31073"},"modified":"2018-03-10T23:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T07:49:54","slug":"asian-champions-league-group-d-esteghlal-vs-al-ain-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/10\/asian-champions-league-group-d-esteghlal-vs-al-ain-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Champions League: Group D &#8211; Esteghlal vs Al Ain [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal will take to Azadi Stadium for the first time in Group D of the AFC Champions League when the table-toppers host Al Ain on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian side are the only team to have won a game in the group, having defeated Al Hilal 1-0 on Matchday Two, and they return to home comforts following a commendable 2-2 draw against Al Ain last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal twice led through Mame Thiam in the United Arab Emirates but Marcus Berg and a late penalty from Ahmed Kahlil ensured the tie ended level after an entertaining second half in which all four goals were scored.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ain have now drawn all three of their group games and sit third in the standings but behind second-placed Al Rayyan on goal difference alone. A win would propel the Emirati side into the top two and leave them looking good with two games to play.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Abdulrahman is available after suspension for Al Ain, who suffered a 1-0 defeat on their previous visit to Azadi Stadium in the first knockout round last year, but ultimately defeated Monday\u2019s opponents 6-1 in the second leg to advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal will take to Azadi Stadium for the first time in Group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31073","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":1517,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073","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=31073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31075,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073\/revisions\/31075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}