{"id":52429,"date":"2024-11-24T18:09:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52429"},"modified":"2024-11-24T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:55:23","slug":"preview-md5-al-rayyan-sc-qat-v-persepolis-fc-irn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/11\/24\/preview-md5-al-rayyan-sc-qat-v-persepolis-fc-irn\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview &#8211; MD5: Al Rayyan SC (QAT) v Persepolis FC (IRN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Al Rayyan,\u00a0 <strong>Al Rayyan SC and Persepolis FC will be aiming to revive their respective campaigns when they square off in the AFC Champions League Elite\u2122 2024\/25 on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both sides are in desperate need of a win with Qatar&#8217;s Al Rayyan having accumulated three points from four matches while Islamic Republic of Iran&#8217;s Persepolis are one behind.<\/p>\n<p>Al Rayyan ended a run of three consecutive defeats with their 1-0 win over Uzbekistan&#8217;s Pakhtakor on Matchday Four and will be hoping to carry that form into their tie against Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>Inconsistency has been a bane this season, with their form in the Qatar Stars League 2024\/25 also underwhelming with a 2-1 defeat to Al Shamal on Friday leaving them ninth in the standings on 10 points, 15 behind leaders Al Duhail SC.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis have also found the going tough on the continental stage, managing just two draws but will count on their record against Al Rayyan to get on the winning trail &#8211; having won two and drawn one of their last three meetings with the Qatari side.<\/p>\n<p>Their domestic form has been good, advancing to the Round of 16 of the Hazfi Cup with a 3-0 defeat of Soongun on Thursday and sitting just a point behind leaders Sepahan in the Iran Pro League 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<div><strong>Al Rayyan SC (QAT) v Persepolis FC (IRN)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Venue: Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium (Al Rayyan)<\/div>\n<div>Kick-off: Monday, 21:00 (UTC+3)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Al Rayyan,\u00a0 Al Rayyan SC and Persepolis FC will be aiming to revive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":52430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-persepolis"],"views":967,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52429","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52435,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52429\/revisions\/52435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}