{"id":36015,"date":"2019-04-08T13:58:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36015"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:59:01","slug":"acl-group-d-persepolis-fc-irn-v-al-ahli-saudi-fc-ksa-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/acl-group-d-persepolis-fc-irn-v-al-ahli-saudi-fc-ksa-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL Group D: Persepolis FC (IRN) v Al Ahli Saudi FC (KSA) [PREVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli and the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Persepolis will go head-to-head in Group D of the AFC Champions League at Al Wasl Stadium on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Ahli won their opening game of the competition 2-0 against Qatar\u2019s Al Sadd, but suffered a 1-0 defeat to Uzbekistan\u2019s Pakhtakor four weeks ago ahead of the double header with the Iranian champions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jeddah side defeated Al Shabab 4-0 in the Saudi Pro League on Friday and remain in fifth place in the standings, but well off the pace of the front two \u2013 Al Nassr and Al Hilal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis, who eliminated Al Ahli at the quarter-final stage of the 2017 edition, have picked up just one point from two games after going down to Al Sadd 1-0 on Matchday Two.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tehran team have been on strong form domestically, though, and have won their past three Iranian Pro League games, including a 2-0 victory over Paykan last week that maintained their place at the top of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli and the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s Persepolis will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36015","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-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":502,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015","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=36015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36018,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015\/revisions\/36018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}