{"id":29068,"date":"2017-09-12T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T04:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29068"},"modified":"2017-09-12T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T04:18:56","slug":"it-was-a-dramatic-win-for-persepolis-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/12\/it-was-a-dramatic-win-for-persepolis-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was a dramatic win for Persepolis&#8221;: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says that his team has earned a dramatic win over Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giant defeated Al Ahli 3-1 (5-3 on aggregate) at the Mohamed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the UAE on Tuesday and advanced to the competition\u2019s semis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I would like to thank our fans who supported us in two matches against Al Ahli. We earned a dramatic win with their support,\u201d Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played better and won the match. Our player was sent off in the 12th minute and it was difficult for us to attack with a man down because we didn\u2019t want to concede more goals. Our plan eventually worked and we could change the result with our substitutes,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will face Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal in the ACL semi-final.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe know that Al Hilal is one of the Asia\u2019s most decorated teams but we are preparing for a great challenge,\u201d Ivankovic stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says that his team has earned a dramatic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":4707,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29068","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=29068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}