{"id":48183,"date":"2023-02-11T08:13:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48183"},"modified":"2023-02-11T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:13:47","slug":"foolad-determined-to-prolong-acl-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/02\/11\/foolad-determined-to-prolong-acl-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad determined to prolong ACL adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Foolad football team of Iran will meet Al Faisaly of Saudi Arabia in the knockout stage with both teams determined to prolong their AFC Champions League adventure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foolad will face Al Faisaly on February 20th at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Faisaly finished top of Group E &#8211; ahead of FC Nasaf on goal difference &#8211; but that was subsequently followed by a shock relegation from the Saudi Pro League, the-afc.com wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Faisaly, however, is very much in the running to make a speedy return to the top flight with the club sitting in fifth place but only three points adrift of the Saudi Division One top spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foolad&#8217;s form in the Iran Professional League has been patchy but that won&#8217;t stop the team from a determined effort to advance to the AFC Champions League quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foolad will look to reproduce the form which saw it top Group C after registering three wins and three draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Foolad football team of Iran will meet Al Faisaly of Saudi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,179,92,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-foolad-khuzestan","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1085,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48183","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=48183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48185,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48183\/revisions\/48185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}