{"id":31438,"date":"2018-04-16T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31438"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:08:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:08:48","slug":"acl-2018-group-a-tractorsazi-tabriz-vs-al-gharafa-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/16\/acl-2018-group-a-tractorsazi-tabriz-vs-al-gharafa-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2018 &#8211; Group A: Tractorsazi Tabriz vs. Al Gharafa [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>The bottom two sides in Group A of the 2018 AFC Champions League will close their continental campaigns on Tuesday as Tractorsazi Tabriz host Al Gharafa at Yadegar-e Emam Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tractorsazi have endured a miserable campaign and have yet to pick up a win, with a 2-0 reversal against Al Ahli on Matchday Five finally confirming their elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gharafa\u2019s 3-2 home defeat to Al Jazira two weeks ago ended the Qatari side&#8217;s hopes of progressing to the knockout rounds because of an inferior head-to-head record against the Emirati team.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts\u2019 form domestically has been equally disappointing as Friday\u2019s loss to Sepidrood Rasht was their 10th game without a win, while Al Gharafa\u2019s last game was a 3-0 win over Qatar SC.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gharafa will be without Assim Madibo after his red card against Al Jazira as the sides aim to end the competition on a high having won just one game between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TABRIZ, The bottom two sides in Group A of the 2018 AFC Champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31438","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":866,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31438","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=31438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31440,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31438\/revisions\/31440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}