{"id":11147,"date":"2010-04-13T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/13\/wahda-warnings-from-ebrahimzadeh\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:12:19","slug":"wahda-warnings-from-ebrahimzadeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/13\/wahda-warnings-from-ebrahimzadeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahda warnings from Ebrahimzadeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"afc-cl22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/afc-cl22.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"332\" \/>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Zob Ahan will be looking to cement their place in the last 16 of the AFC  Champions League on Wednesday against an Al Wahda side without a win in  Group B but coach Mansour Ebrahimzadeh has warned his players against  succumbing to complacency. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranians top the standings after three wins and a draw in  the tournament so far and will be looking to take all three points from  their UAE opponents, who are set to hand starts to a number of  youngsters with their own chances of qualification over.<\/p>\n<p>Al  Wahda are bottom of the standings having lost all four games and have  nothing but pride to play for in their remaining two fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis  is the most important match for us because after this we take on Al  Ittihad in the last game and we are not sure what the status of the  group will be then,\u201d said Ebrahimzadeh (pictured). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very  important that we win tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ebrahimzadeh also believes the  fact Al Wahda will rest some of their first-team regulars will not make  the game any easier and instead expects those who come into the side  will be eager to make an impression.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We know Al Wahda will play  their reserves but this makes it even trickier,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  regular players will not be motivated to perform when they know their  team has no future in the ACL but it is totally different with the  reserve players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will go all out to impress when they get a  chance to play. Also Al Wahda will not be playing under any pressure so  it will not be an easy game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Wahda coach Josef  Hickersberger confirmed he will rest players that are carrying minor  injuries but is adamant his side will not roll over and give Zob Ahan the  win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will play our best and if Zob Ahan are good enough they  can beat us,\u201d said the Austrian. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a few players whom we  have not tried so we will be playing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One player who will  likely feature, though, is star striker Fernando Baiano with the  Brazilian available after serving a three-match ban.<\/p>\n<p>Haider Alo  Ali, Mahmoud Khamis and Talal Abdullah are also all back from  suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DUBAI, Zob Ahan will be looking to cement their place in the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2186,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}