{"id":42337,"date":"2021-05-04T08:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42337"},"modified":"2021-05-04T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:20:59","slug":"fifa-persepolis-maintains-its-form-in-2021-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/05\/04\/fifa-persepolis-maintains-its-form-in-2021-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA: Persepolis maintains its form in 2021 ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Having twice stormed to the ACL final in 2018 and 2020, Persepolis maintained its rampaging form on the continental scene, finishing as group winner in dominant fashion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nine-time Iranian champion opened brightly, claiming four straight victories, and despite suffering an unexpected 1-0 loss at Al-Wahda, it bounced back to dispatch Al-Rayyan 4-2 to seal its passage through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the four Iranian sides involved progressed, with last year&#8217;s runner-up Persepolis, Esteghlal and Tractor advancing, leaving Foolad as the only eliminated Iran Pro League team, FIFA.com wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining the trio in the knockout phase will be Riyadh-based duo Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr while Al-Wahda and Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates both made it through. Tournament debutant Istiklol, meanwhile, took its group campaign by storm and progressed as group winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ZURICH, Having twice stormed to the ACL final in 2018 and 2020, Persepolis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42337","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-persepolis"],"views":514,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42337","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=42337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42340,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42337\/revisions\/42340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}