{"id":35461,"date":"2019-02-12T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35461"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:51:18","slug":"acl-irans-saipa-down-minerva-punjab-at-preliminary-stage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/12\/acl-irans-saipa-down-minerva-punjab-at-preliminary-stage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Iran\u2019s Saipa down Minerva Punjab at Preliminary Stage 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Saipa football team from Iran defeated Indian Minerva Punjab 4-0 in a 2019 AFC Champions League Preliminary Stage 2 tie at the Shahr-e Qods Stadium in Tehran, Iran on Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arash Rezavand opened the scoring for \nSaipa in the eighth minute from the penalty spot and Arman Ramezani was \non target for the hosts in the 24th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saipa scored two more goals in the second \nhalf with Samuel Sarfo finding the Minerva net in the 73rd minute while \nRezavand scored his second goal of the match in the 81st minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next Tuesday, Saipa will travel to Doha, Qatar to play Al Rayyan in the playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saipa, coached by Iranian legend Ali Daei,\n have also been struggling in their domestic top competition, the \nPersian Gulf Pro League, but on Tuesday they were the far better side as\n they dominated the match throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the loss, Minerva will still \nremain in the continental stage this season as they still have an \nautomatic berth in the AFC Cup, the second tier continental club \ncompetition. They will play the group stage of the AFC Cup from Group D,\n starting in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Saipa football team from Iran defeated Indian Minerva Punjab 4-0 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":608,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35463,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35461\/revisions\/35463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}