{"id":37150,"date":"2019-08-03T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37150"},"modified":"2019-08-03T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T16:42:10","slug":"one-to-watch-in-acl-quarters-zob-ahan-striker-motahari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/08\/03\/one-to-watch-in-acl-quarters-zob-ahan-striker-motahari\/","title":{"rendered":"One to watch in ACL Quarters: Zob Ahan striker Motahari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Zob Ahan forward Amir Arsalan Motahari is among the ones to watch in the 2019 AFC Champions League quarter-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As eight West Asian teams battle for four spots in the 2019 AFC Champions League quarter-finals, they will be looking for their talismans to lead by example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of West Asia&#8217;s Round of 16 first leg encounters, the-AFC.com looks at eight players who could make the difference for their respective teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arsalan Motahari is one of the eight players who can make a difference for Zob Ahan in the match against Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite playing just 377 minutes out of a possible 540 in the group stage, Amir Arsalan Motahari is Zob Ahan\u2019s most productive attacking player with three goals and an assist to his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 26-year-old was also his side\u2019s top scorer in the league with six goals despite arriving from Omani side Saham three months into the Iranian Pro League season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motahari will be hoping to replicate his 2015 AFC Champions League success when he helped Naft Tehran reach the quarter-finals with three goals in 10 appearances. He had also represented Tractor Sazi in the 2018 edition but failed to find the back of the net in three appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Zob Ahan forward Amir Arsalan Motahari is among the ones to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,93,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-zob-ahan"],"views":498,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37150","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=37150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37152,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37150\/revisions\/37152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}