{"id":40524,"date":"2020-09-28T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40524"},"modified":"2020-09-28T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:28:19","slug":"issa-alekasir-tops-opta-rankings-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/28\/issa-alekasir-tops-opta-rankings-in-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Issa Alekasir tops OPTA Rankings in Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Persepolis FC&#8217;s matchwinner Issa Alekasir topped the OPTA rankings of the AFC Champions League Round of 16 (WEST).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the conclusion of four thrilling Round of 16 ties, OPTA, the AFC&#8217;s official data provider, have compiled their list of candidates for the Player of the Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alekasir topped the OPTA rankings for this week as the striker scored the tie&#8217;s only goal as the Tehran giant eliminated home side Al-Sadd SC following a 1-0 win on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 30-year-old forward, who was also nominated for the Matchday Six Player of the Week award, netted for the second time in consecutive matches and he was a constant threat up front for the Iranian side with five shots on goal, two aerials won and two duels won for his 7.7 OPTA rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Persepolis FC&#8217;s matchwinner Issa Alekasir topped the OPTA rankings of the AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,172,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":911,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524","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=40524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40526,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524\/revisions\/40526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}