{"id":11119,"date":"2010-03-31T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/03\/31\/ghalenoei-pakhtakor-win-eases-pressure\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T19:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:49:39","slug":"ghalenoei-pakhtakor-win-eases-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/03\/31\/ghalenoei-pakhtakor-win-eases-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghalenoei: Pakhtakor win eases pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ghalenoiee\"AFC – ESFAHAN, Sepahan coach Amir Ghalenoei admitted the 2-0 victory over Pakhtakor has alleviated some of the pressure he felt his team were under in the AFC Champions League. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Headers from Ibrahima Toure and Mohsen Bengar inside the space of two second-half minutes saw the Iranians come out on top in a dour Group C encounter at Foolad Shahr Stadium as they secured their first win in this season’s continental competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were under a lot of pressure due to our recent lacklustre performance in the ACL but today\u2019s win helped us get away from the pressure we were feeling,\u201d said Ghalenoei.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a good victory and our next priority in the continental tournament is to play offensively against Al Shabab to maintain this good form. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe should produce a higher quality game against Al Shabab to make sure we can gain points from that match. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t play as we can in the first-half but after the substitutions I made, our playing system altered to 4-3-3 and it was a well thought-out plan to devise more attacks. <\/p>\n

\u201cHad we missed out on today\u2019s points, we would naturally have had no more realistic chances of qualifying to the next phase. We kept our hopes alive.\u201d <\/p>\n

Pakhtakor head coach Miodrag Radulovic was disappointed with the way his side conceded both goals from corners due to slack marking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d been trying to drill it into my boys\u2019 mind to man mark at free-kicks and corner kicks but they didn\u2019t keep that in mind and we consequently conceded both goals from corners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also had two or three good chances in the first-half, which we didn\u2019t take advantage of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radulovic admitted that the result means Group C is now wide open with any of the four teams capable of making it through to the last 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy any more to predict which teams will qualify to the next round,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can say the Group C qualification picture has become less clear. It will come down to the last round of games to see which teams make it into the next round but I hope Sepahan will qualify together with my team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe teams are very closely matched. As I said, we will have to wait until the last day to know who the qualifying sides will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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