{"id":35720,"date":"2019-03-10T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35720"},"modified":"2019-03-10T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:44:53","slug":"acl-group-a-al-nassr-ksa-v-zobahan-fc-irn-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/10\/acl-group-a-al-nassr-ksa-v-zobahan-fc-irn-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Group A: Al Nassr (KSA) vs Zobahan FC (IRN) [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr will look to bounce back from their opening-day defeat to Al Wasl when they face the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Zobahan in Group A of the 2019 AFC Champions League at Al Maktoum Stadium on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their first game in the competition since 2016, Al Nassr went down 1-0 in to Al Wasl, also in Dubai, and the Riyadh side have now gone four games on the continent without registering a goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Nassr <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">have<\/g>, however, been on a superb run domestically and scored deep into stoppage time to secure a 3-2 win against Ettifaq on Friday and move within four points of Saudi Pro League leaders Al Hilal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zobahan dominated large spells of their opening match against Iraq\u2019s Al Zawraa last week but were unable to break the deadlock as the sides shared a goalless draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Isfahan team have since won their first Iranian Pro League game since August when they defeated Padideh Khorasan 1-0 on Thursday to edge away from the relegation zone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Nassr and Zobahan also met twice in the 2016 group stage with the Iranian side posting back-to-back 3-0 victories as they advanced to the knockout rounds and the Saudi side were eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr will look to bounce back from their opening-day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35720","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":576,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720","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=35720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35724,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions\/35724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}