{"id":35654,"date":"2019-03-04T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35654"},"modified":"2019-03-04T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T22:43:14","slug":"acl-group-c-al-duhail-sc-qat-v-esteghlal-fc-irn-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/04\/acl-group-c-al-duhail-sc-qat-v-esteghlal-fc-irn-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Group C: Al Duhail SC (QAT) v Esteghlal FC (IRN) [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Qatar\u2019s Al Duhail and Esteghlal of the Islamic Republic of Iran will meet in their opening 2019 AFC Champions League Group C match at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Duhail were one of the stories of the 2018 season as the Doha side went on a nine-game winning run to equal Ulsan Hyundai\u2019s record set in 2012. They exited at the last eight stage, however, after Iranian side Persepolis dealt them a first defeat in the second leg of the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2017-18 Qatar Stars League champions currently sit second in their domestic league and go into their Continental opener on the back of a 6-0 victory over Al Ahli last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal, who will be without the suspended Roozbeh Cheshmi, also reached the quarter-finals in 2018 before elimination at the hands of another Qatari side, Al Sadd, and they return for a third year in a row after winning the 2017-18 Hazfi Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tehran side have won three games in a row and are fourth in the Iran Pro League, with last week\u2019s 3-1 victory over Foolad Khuzestan continuing their fine recent run of form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Qatar\u2019s Al Duhail and Esteghlal of the Islamic Republic of Iran will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35654","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":1075,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654","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=35654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35663,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654\/revisions\/35663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}