{"id":11652,"date":"2010-11-13T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/13\/molina-marked-as-seongnam-dangerman\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:23:39","slug":"molina-marked-as-seongnam-dangerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/13\/molina-marked-as-seongnam-dangerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Molina marked as Seongnam dangerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"acl05-trophyshot-01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/acl05-trophyshot-01.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"370\" \/>AFC &#8211; TOKYO, <strong>Zob Ahan coach Mansour Ebrahimzadeh picked out Mauricio Molina as the  man his side need to stop if they are to defeat Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma at  Tokyo&#8217;s National Stadium and lift the AFC Champions League trophy for  the first time. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Colombian forward has seven goals to his name in the  tournament and heads into Saturday&#8217;s game with the chance of claiming  the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n<p>A hat-trick against Zob Ahan will be enough for  him to supplant Jose Mota at the top of scoring charts, meaning he will  no doubt be hungrier than ever to fire his side to victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are a very clever team and Molina is a very important player,\u201d added Ebrahimzadeh (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will both be giving our best so we cannot predict what will happen. All we can do is set the goal and do our best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever  happens on Sunday, Zob Ahan can certainly be proud of their performance  at the AFC Champions League and are fully deserved of their place in  the final having defeated the likes of former champions Pohang Steelers  and two-time champions Al Ittihad before overcoming Saudi Arabia giants  Al Hilal in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians travelled to Japan five  days before the final to ensure they are fully prepared for the game  against Seongnam and Ebrahimzadeh is confident that if his players stick  to their game plan, then they will be heading home with the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a victory for us to get here and we are confident we can get the win tomorrow,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  have done our analysis of their team. They are very clever and very  tough so on the pitch we will play with the objective in mind (to win  the final)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a plan and with it we will be able to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zob  Ahan captain Mohammad Salsali is hoping to be given the nod by  Ebrahimzadeh for a place in the starting line-up after recently  recovering from injury.<\/p>\n<p>The defender has largely been restricted  to appearances off the bench in recent games but, aside from a slight  scare in training on Friday, he is confident he is fit to play against  Seongnam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have trained and my condition is good but the decision is up to the head coach,\u201d said Salsali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday I injured myself a little bit but I was taken well care of so tomorrow I hope I can play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TOKYO, Zob Ahan coach Mansour Ebrahimzadeh picked out Mauricio Molina as the man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":1966,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}