{"id":31415,"date":"2018-04-15T11:16:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31415"},"modified":"2018-04-15T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:16:30","slug":"acl-2018-group-d-al-hilal-sfc-vs-esteghlal-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/15\/acl-2018-group-d-al-hilal-sfc-vs-esteghlal-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018 &#8211; Group D: Al Hilal SFC vs. Esteghlal [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, <strong>Bottom faces top in Group D of the AFC Champions League on Monday when Al Hilal take on Esteghlal at Kuwait Sports Club Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal are already assured of a place in the next round having beaten Al Rayyan 2-0 in early April, but the Iranian side must avoid defeat to win the group.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time continental champions, who are without suspended duo Roozneh Cheshmi and Omid Ebrahimi, warmed up for the game with a 1-1 draw against Gostaresh Foolad Tabriz last week.<\/p>\n<p>Runners-up last year, Al Hilal\u2019s form has dropped dramatically this time round and their 2-1 defeat in Al Ain on Matchday Five confirmed their early elimination.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi side go into the game on a high, though, after a 4-1 win over Al Fateh secured the Saudi Pro League title on Thursday. Ali Al Bulayhi misses the game through suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, Bottom faces top in Group D of the AFC Champions League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31415","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":1253,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415","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=31415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31417,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415\/revisions\/31417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}