{"id":36467,"date":"2019-05-20T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36467"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:37:14","slug":"acl-zob-ahan-looks-to-top-group-against-saudis-al-nassr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/20\/acl-zob-ahan-looks-to-top-group-against-saudis-al-nassr\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Zob Ahan looks to top group against Saudi&#8217;s Al Nassr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KARBALA, <strong>A head-to-head battle for the top spot in Group A sees Iran\u2019s Zob Ahan hosting Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr at Karbala Sports City on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both sides have progressed to the next round following positive results on Matchday Five; Zob Ahan earned a last-minute draw at Al Zawraa to stay unbeaten in five, while Al Nassr was clinical in a 3-1 triumph over Al Wasl that saw the team makes it three wins on the trot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Nassr comes into the game buoyed with Saudi Pro League success. Al Nassr edged rival Al Hilal to win its first league title since 2014-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Zob Ahan, a place in the Round of 16 has been booked for the third time in four years, but the Isfahan-based side has been knocked out at that stage in each of the two previous occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avoiding defeat on Tuesday will ensure it finishes top of the group and goes into the knockout stage unbeaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KARBALA, A head-to-head battle for the top spot in Group A sees Iran\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36467","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":506,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467","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=36467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36469,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467\/revisions\/36469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}