Asian CL match off as Saudi club won't take field

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Photographs from the stadium published on social media showed a bust of Soleimani had been placed at the entrance to the pitch and would have been in full view of the players as they exited the tunnel.
53% : "Neymar, who joined Al Hilal from PSG this summer, responded to a video posted on Sunday on social media that showed workers patching up part of the surface with a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that simply read: "This is not possible.
52% : Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been strained and this year's Asian Champions League is the first since 2016 in which clubs from both nations have been permitted to play one another home and away.
49% : Cristiano Ronaldo led his Al-Nassr side to Tehran two weeks ago to face Persepolis at the Azadi Stadium, although that game was played in an empty stadium due to a one-game spectator ban given to the Iranian club by the AFC due to fan behavior.
49% : "Reports surfaced later on Monday that Al Hilal had been told by the SPL to leave Iran and return to Saudi Arabia immediately with the game expected to be postponed.Al Hilal, who have won the competition a record four times, drew 1-1 with Uzbekistan's Navbahor in Riyadh on Sep. 18 in their Asian Champions League group opener.
43% : "Qasem Soleimani, a prominent general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed near Baghdad airport in a United States drone strike in January 2020 and is viewed as a martyr by the country's ruling regime.

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