{"id":36445,"date":"2019-05-19T16:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36445"},"modified":"2019-05-19T16:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:39:34","slug":"al-sadd-aim-to-top-group-with-win-against-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/19\/al-sadd-aim-to-top-group-with-win-against-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Sadd aim to top group with win against Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gulf Times &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> The famous Azadi Stadium in Tehran will be home to the last match in the career of Spanish football legend Xavi as Al Sadd face Persepolis in their final Group C game in the AFC Champions League today.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>The former Barcelona and Spain midfielder brings to an end a four-year stay in Doha as he prepares to hang up his boots following the Persepolis clash, bringing down the curtain on a 22-year career which saw him win 32 titles, the last of which was the 2018-19 Qatar Stars League. Xavi played his last match on Qatari soil on Friday but Al Sadd ended up losers to Al Duhail in the Amir Cup final. A win against Persepolis therefore would help him end his career on a winning note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>In Tehran, a repeat of the 2018 AFC Champions League semi-final between Persepolis and Al Sadd comes under contrasting circumstances, with Al Sadd already qualifying and Persepolis eliminated from Group D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Today, the two sides meet for the sixth time in just over a year. Persepolis and Al Sadd were pitted together in Group C last time around. A brace from Baghdad Bounedjah helped Al Sadd to a 3-1 win in Doha on Matchday Two.<br \/>A victory for Al Sadd, who have 10 points, will help them top the group. But a loss, combined with a win for Uzbekistan\u2019s Pakhtakor (8), against Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli, will see the Uzbeks rise to the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The famous Azadi Stadium in Tehran will be home to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36445","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"],"views":391,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36445","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=36445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36447,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36445\/revisions\/36447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}