{"id":36264,"date":"2019-05-04T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36264"},"modified":"2019-05-04T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:48:51","slug":"esteghlal-must-defeat-al-duhail-to-keep-acl-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/04\/esteghlal-must-defeat-al-duhail-to-keep-acl-hopes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal must defeat Al Duhail to keep ACL hopes alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team of Iran must defeat Al Duhail of Qatar in Matchday Five of the 2019 AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match is scheduled for Monday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal&nbsp;will be led by Farhad Majidi, who replaced Winfried Schafer, when it welcomes Al Duhail to Azadi Stadium. Any result except a win will send the Iranians out of the competition early, the-afc.com wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another group match, Al Hilal hosts an Al Ain side that has officially lost its UAE Pro League title after a five-match winless run in the league saw the team drop to fifth, battling for a place in next year\u2019s AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Hilal sits top of Group C with nine points, followed by Al Duhail with seven points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal is third with four points and Al Ain remains bottom of the table with just two points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team of Iran must defeat Al Duhail of Qatar in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36264","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","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":585,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264","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=36264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36266,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264\/revisions\/36266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}