{"id":23288,"date":"2015-11-14T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23288"},"modified":"2015-11-14T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:04:58","slug":"we-are-the-favorites-to-win-our-group-ashkan-dejagah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/14\/we-are-the-favorites-to-win-our-group-ashkan-dejagah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are the favorites to win our group&#8221; &#8211; Ashkan Dejagah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international Ashkan Dejagah is confident ahead of Iran\u2019s World Cup qualifier clash against Guam on Tuesday while he believes the Persians can qualify to the next round as the group winner.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a very good win against Turkmenistan on Thursday in Tehran. We had a lot of goal scoring opportunities and we could have scored more; however a 3-1 win is also good. We have climbed to the top of our group and a win against Guam on Tuesday will make us the favorite to win the group and qualify to the next round,\u201d Dejagah told ISNA. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian had problems obtaining Guam visa as the country is a U.S. territory and several of Carlos Queiroz men including Ehsan Haji Safi and Alireza Haghighi couldn\u2019t travel to Guam. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows what happened during the last week and we will not have a couple of our key players against Guam due to visa issues. But this was not the only problem; we had to make a very long trip to Guam while the game will be held on artificial pitch. Despite all these difficulties we will try our best to get the three points and make our fans happy,\u201d Dejagah added. <\/p>\n<p>Iran, who is currently at the top of 2018 World Cup qualification Group D with 11 points. will take on Guam at the GFA\u2019s National Training Center in Harmon on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international Ashkan Dejagah is confident ahead of Iran\u2019s World Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2101,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}