{"id":40341,"date":"2020-09-14T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40341"},"modified":"2020-09-14T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:39:29","slug":"acl-2020-sepahan-looking-for-second-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/14\/acl-2020-sepahan-looking-for-second-win\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2020: Sepahan looking for second win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Matchday Three of the 2020 AFC Champions League concludes on Tuesday with Iran\u2019s Sepahan FC facing Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr in Group D at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan\u2019s fortunes has drastically shifted from Matchday One to Matchday Two, having started the campaign off with a 4-0 defeat of former champion Al Ain FC before succumbing to a 3-0 loss at the hands of Al Sadd SC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In turn, Al Nassr kicked its 2020 AFC Champions League journey off with a 2-2 draw against Al Sadd, before bagging all three points against Al Ain on Matchday Two with a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Domestically, Al Nassr lost its Saudi Pro League title to rival Al Hilal, finishing second in 2019-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Sepahan ended the season fifth despite a blistering start that saw the team goes unbeaten in its first 15 matches in the Iran Pro League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a point separating the duo, a win is paramount to either side\u2019s efforts of advancing to the Round of 16 before they meet again three days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides have never met before in the AFC Champions League, with the Isfahan-based side representing the fourth Iranian opposition Al Nassr will have faced in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Al Nassr does win, it will be its first victory against Iranian opposition in six attempts, a run that stretches all the way back to 2015, while Sepahan has lost its last three matches against Saudi opposition without scoring a single goal, conceding seven in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will be held at the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Matchday Three of the 2020 AFC Champions League concludes on Tuesday with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40341","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","category-sepahan"],"views":376,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40341","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=40341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40343,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40341\/revisions\/40343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}