{"id":35083,"date":"2019-01-18T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35083"},"modified":"2019-01-18T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:59:15","slug":"afc-asian-cup-2019-top-5-midfielders-from-the-group-stage-ashkan-dejagah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/18\/afc-asian-cup-2019-top-5-midfielders-from-the-group-stage-ashkan-dejagah\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup 2019: Top 5 midfielders from the group stage [Ashkan Dejagah]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>The AFC Asian Cup 2019 is reaching its business end in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the conclusion of the group stages on Thursday and the start of the knockout stages on Sunday.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the last couple of weeks, we have witnessed some of the best footballers in Asia taking centre stage and with that, it is also time to run the rule over their performances as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1) Ashkan Dejagah \u2013 IR Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the 32-year-old veteran is reaching the twilight of his international career, but what a way it would be to end it by lifting Iran\u2019s first Asian Cup title in 43 years! \u00a0The Tractor Sazi midfielder has looked up for it in the early stages of the tournament being a physical presence of right side of the Iran midfield. He has already scored one goal in\u00a0<em>Team Melli\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>5-0 thrashing of Yemen. The 32-year-old has made two starts in the tournament and but has played in 10 crosses in that time \u2014 more than any other Iran player.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; DUBAI, The AFC Asian Cup 2019 is reaching its business end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1088,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083","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=35083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35085,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083\/revisions\/35085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}