{"id":31271,"date":"2018-04-01T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31271"},"modified":"2018-04-01T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T18:06:23","slug":"acl-2018-group-c-nasaf-vs-persepolis-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/01\/acl-2018-group-c-nasaf-vs-persepolis-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018 &#8211; Group C: Nasaf vs. Persepolis [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; QARSHI, <strong>Nasaf will look to maintain their strong home record when they welcome Persepolis to Qarshi Markaziy Stadium in Group C of the AFC Champions League on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Uzbek side are undefeated in their past five home games on the continent and have beaten both Al Wasl and Al Sadd 1-0 in their two matches in front of their own fans in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nasaf will be aiming to bounce back from a 4-0 reversal to Al Sadd three weeks ago, while Persepolis have won two Group C games in a row after Kamal Kamyabinia struck the only goal of the game against Al Wasl last time out.<\/p>\n<p>When the teams met in Tehran on the opening fixture of the competition, Persepolis ran out 3-1 winners, meaning should they avoid defeat in Uzbekistan then their place in the next round is assured.<\/p>\n<p>Nasaf warmed up for the clash with a 1-1 draw against Metalourg on Friday, while Persepolis suffered a rare home reversal by going down 2-1 to Saipa a day earlier. Saydullo Rakhmatov returns from suspension for the hosts but Shojae Khalilzadeh is serving a one-game ban for the Iranian team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; QARSHI, Nasaf will look to maintain their strong home record when they welcome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31271","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":1162,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31271","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=31271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31273,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31271\/revisions\/31273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}