{"id":17433,"date":"2019-04-25T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2019-04-25T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:12:19","slug":"jdt-crash-out-of-champions-league-with-loss-to-shandong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/04\/25\/jdt-crash-out-of-champions-league-with-loss-to-shandong\/","title":{"rendered":"JDT Crash Out of Champions League With Loss To Shandong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Aiman Nazirmuddin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Football Tribe Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johor Darul Ta&#8217;zim (JDT) dropped out in the Asian Champions League (ACL) after losing 0-1 to Shandong Luneng FC at home in the fourth matchday of Group E.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graziano Pelle handed Shandong the only goal of the game after a close-range shot in the 22nd minute to chalk-up their second win of the group stage at the Larkin Stadium last night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two teams started quite fiercely, with the hosts, in particular, attempting to play an open and expansive game. However, after Shandong Luneng scored the first goal, JDT had no answer and their response was weak.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JDT dropped without their important leader defense, Mauricio Nascimento, who was suffering from injuries. Additionally, they did not list Gonzalo Cabrera in the starting line-up, meaning that Brazilian striker Diogo Luis Santo was the only main attacking outlet for the Malaysian Champions up front.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the second half, JDT was forced to up their game and had the chance to call on Cabrera, Safawi Rasid and Hazwan Bakri. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, attempts from both team failed to produce, and the Chinese side&#8217;s one-goal advantage stood for the remainder of the match.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The victory put Shandong Luneng on top of Group E with eight points.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aiman Nazirmuddin Football Tribe Malaysia &nbsp; Johor Darul Ta&#8217;zim (JDT) dropped out in the Asian Champions League (ACL) after losing 0-1 to Shandong Luneng FC at home in the fourth matchday of Group E. Graziano Pelle handed Shandong the only goal of the game after a close-range shot in the 22nd minute to chalk-up their second win of the group stage at the Larkin Stadium last night. The two teams started quite fiercely, with the hosts, in particular, attempting to play an open and expansive game. However, after Shandong Luneng scored the first goal, JDT had no answer and their response was weak.\u00a0 JDT dropped without their important leader defense, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/04\/25\/jdt-crash-out-of-champions-league-with-loss-to-shandong\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;JDT Crash Out of Champions League With Loss To Shandong&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":17434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-17433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-champions-league","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}