{"id":31100,"date":"2018-03-12T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31100"},"modified":"2018-03-12T23:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T06:59:15","slug":"acl-2018-group-c-al-wasl-fc-vs-persepolis-fc-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/12\/acl-2018-group-c-al-wasl-fc-vs-persepolis-fc-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018: Group C &#8211; Al Wasl FC vs Persepolis FC [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Al Wasl will be eliminated from the AFC Champions League if they suffer a fourth successive defeat in Tuesday\u2019s game with Group C leaders Persepolis at Zabeel Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farshad Ahmadzadeh and Ali Alipour got on the scoresheet as Persepolis claimed a 2-0 victory over Al Wasl in Tehran last week to remain top of the standings at the midway point of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The loss was Al Wasl\u2019s third in a row and, realistically, only a win on home soil will keep their hopes of reaching the next phase alive. They will be able to call on Ali Salmin once more after the midfielder served a one-game ban last week.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis go into the encounter boasting a fine recent record against Emirati opposition, having won their last five games against sides from the UAE, and a sixth victory in succession would leave them in a strong position ahead of the last two rounds of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>With Persepolis above Al Sadd and Nasaf on goal difference alone going into to Matchday Four, Group C is already looking like a close finish awaits, with the top three locked together on six points in an intriguing battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, Al Wasl will be eliminated from the AFC Champions League if they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31100","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":1373,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100","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=31100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31102,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions\/31102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}