{"id":42169,"date":"2021-04-20T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42169"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:42:57","slug":"afc-mehdi-ghaedi-key-to-esteghlals-attacking-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/04\/20\/afc-mehdi-ghaedi-key-to-esteghlals-attacking-form\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Mehdi Ghaedi key to Esteghlal&#8217;s attacking form"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Esteghlal football team midfielder Mehdi Ghaedi has been key to the Iranian team\u2019s attacking form in the 2021 AFC Champions League group stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Group C leader has been hugely impressive going forward, and its eight goals in picking up back-to-back wins is at least double the amount any other side has racked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key to that form has been attacking midfielder Ghaedi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22-year-old bagged a brace against Al-Ahli Saudi in a game that saw him create five chances, before providing a beautiful assist against Al-Shorta for Mohammad Naderi to score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The playmaker displayed his talents in the 2020 edition and is already looking even better this time round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two points separate the top two in Group C ahead of a meeting on Wednesday that Al-Duhail will surely consider &#8216;must not lose&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Esteghlal football team midfielder Mehdi Ghaedi has been key to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":992,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42169","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=42169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42171,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42169\/revisions\/42171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}