{"id":38524,"date":"2020-01-25T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38524"},"modified":"2020-01-25T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T22:22:42","slug":"irans-esteghlal-shahr-khodro-qualify-for-acl-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/01\/25\/irans-esteghlal-shahr-khodro-qualify-for-acl-playoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Esteghlal, Shahr Khodro qualify for ACL playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,  <strong>Esteghlal and Shahr Khodro football teams from Iran booked their places at the 2020 AFC Champions League playoff on Saturday. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal\n defeated Kuwait SC 3-0 at the 2020 AFC Champions League Preliminary \nStage 2 in Dubai\u2019s Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malian striker Cheick Diabat\u00e9 scored twice in the 27th and 54th and Vouria Ghafouri made it 3-0 in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal\n will take on Qatar&#8217;s Al Rayyan SC at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium on \nTuesday. Eventually, the winners will sit in ACL\u2019s Group A along with Al\n Wahda FSCC of the UAE, Iraq&#8217;s Al Shorta and another team from the \nqualifying stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \nother Iranian team, Shahr Khodro, defeated Bahrain\u2019s Riffa 2-1 at the \nSharjah Stadium. Mohammadreza Khalatbari scored for Shahr Khodro in the \n19th minute but Saleh Taher equalized the match in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With eight minutes remaining, Amin Ghasseminejhad scored the winner for the Iranian team.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nShahr Khodro will play Qatar&#8217;s Al Sailiya SC on Tuesday at the Abdullah \nbin Khalifa Stadium and the ultimate winners will advance to Group B \nalongside Al Hilal SFC of Saudi Arabia, the UAE&#8217;s Shabab Al Ahli Dubai \nand Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s Persepolis and Sepahan have already secured their places in the group stage of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal and Shahr Khodro football teams from Iran booked their places&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":547,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38524","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38528,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38524\/revisions\/38528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}