{"id":36135,"date":"2019-04-20T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36135"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:45:13","slug":"esteghlal-into-the-heart-of-the-afc-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/04\/20\/esteghlal-into-the-heart-of-the-afc-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal into the heart of the AFC Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim  &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The-afc.com wrote that Esteghlal of Iran moved into the heart of 2019 AFC Champions League for the two Round-of-16 places with a win over the Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia in Doha.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After convincingly winning its first two games of the group, Al Hilal succumbed to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Esteghlal on Matchday Three. The Saudi side, however, remains top of Group C with six points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal, meanwhile, moved into the heart of competition for the two Round-of-16 places with the win in Doha, having collected just one point from their first two matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;A win against Al Hilal in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday could see the team topples the Saudis from the top spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will be held at the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the UAE on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The-afc.com wrote that Esteghlal of Iran moved into the heart of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":594,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36135","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=36135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36137,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36135\/revisions\/36137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}