{"id":38637,"date":"2020-02-09T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38637"},"modified":"2020-02-09T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:41:37","slug":"esteghlal-not-afraid-of-any-team-in-acl-2020-majidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/09\/esteghlal-not-afraid-of-any-team-in-acl-2020-majidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal not afraid of any team in ACL 2020: Majidi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal coach Farhad Majidi says that they are not afraid to play any team in the forthcoming 2020 AFC Champions League. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian Blues are scheduled to meet Iraq\u2019s Al Shorta in Group A at the Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Al Shorta booked their place in the \ngroup stage as domestic champions, Esteghlal had to negotiate two \nqualifiers, and did so in style, brushing aside Kuwait SC 3-0 in the \nPreliminary Round 2 before demolishing Qatar\u2019s Al Sailiyah SC 5-0 in the\n Play-off round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Majidi says they are ready to face any opponent in the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are ready to show a good performance \nagainst Al Shorta but we\u2019re a little worried about our physical fitness \nbecause our players are very tired,\u201d Majidi said in the pre-match news \nconference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the previous four matches I\u2019ve coached\n Esteghlal, we scored 12 goals and just conceded three goals and it \nshows that how strong we are. In Tehran derby against Persepolis, we \nshould have won the match but they escaped the loss with a late goal. \nEsteghlal are not afraid of any team in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have analyzed Al Shorta very well and will play for a win,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal forward Cheick Diabate will be \nabsent in this match after he suffered a foot injury in Iran league but \nMajidi is not worried about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDiabate is a great player but we have other players to fill his place,\u201d Majidi concluded. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal coach Farhad Majidi says that they are not afraid to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":520,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38637","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38639,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38637\/revisions\/38639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}