{"id":14275,"date":"2013-04-09T11:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14275"},"modified":"2013-04-09T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:26:54","slug":"sepahan-must-beat-al-ahli-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/04\/09\/sepahan-must-beat-al-ahli-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan must beat Al-Ahli, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; JEDDAH, <strong>Sepahan coach Zlatko Kranjcar says Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Ahli is a well-organized team but we must beat them on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Sepahan suffered a 4-2 loss against Al-Ahli in Isfahan\u2019s Fooladshahr Stadium in Group C of the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo secure a place in the round of 16, we must beat Al-Ahli in their home. They have good players but we are ready to beat them,\u201d Zlatko Kranjcar said in a pre-match news conference held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could beat Al-Ahli in their home and will do our best to do that,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahli\u2019s Brazilian striker Victor Simoes will be suspended for the Wednesday\u2019s match at the King Abdulaziz Sport City in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Garrafa of Qatar will host Al-Nasr of the United Arab Emirates in another match of the group.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahli leads Group C with nine points, followed by Al-Garrafa with six points. Sepahan is third with three points and Al-Nasr sits bottom of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; JEDDAH, Sepahan coach Zlatko Kranjcar says Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Ahli is a well-organized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2571,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275","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=14275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}