{"id":11158,"date":"2010-04-15T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/15\/we-never-turned-up-fumes-ebrahimzadeh\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:44:19","slug":"we-never-turned-up-fumes-ebrahimzadeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/15\/we-never-turned-up-fumes-ebrahimzadeh\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We never turned up\u2019 fumes Ebrahimzadeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/coaches\/e\/300x200\/mansour_ebrahimzadeh_zobahan_3x2.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; Abu Dhabi, <strong>Zobahan coach Mansour Ebrahimzadeh admitted his side failed  to turn up as they suffered their first loss in this year\u2019s AFC  Champions League after going down 1-0 to Al Wahda at Al Nahyan Stadium. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hassan Amin\u2019s 71st minute goal settled the Group A encounter  although the margin of defeat could have been greater after the hosts  hit the post three times.<\/p>\n<p>The result means Zobahan now face a  potentially tense final game against last year\u2019s runners-up Al Ittihad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had told you yesterday that it will not be an easy match and now  you can understand why I said that. Al Wahda was under no pressure and  they played well,\u201d said Ebrahimzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to our previous  performances we were hardly in the game. Al Wahda dominated the  first-half but we did come back strongly in the second-half. I also feel  we were denied a penalty but that does not take anything away from  their win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe missed a few of our players. We will now have to  regroup, we have a game in four days in Iran but we will focus on the  ACL match.<\/p>\n<p>Al Wahda, meanwhile, celebrated picking up their  first points of the campaign and coach Josef Hickesberger believes the  win shows the difference between the two teams is not as great as the  table suggests.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe played very well in the first-half and  controlled the game,\u201d said the Austrian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in the  second-half, apart from the first 15 minutes, we were the better team  and after Hassan Amin\u2019s goal we hit the post a number of times. It was a  well-deserved win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis win also shows that the difference  between teams in the ACL is not as the points indicate, though Zobahan  were missing three of their players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had no chance in the  ACL and after our win against Al Ain in the league my players were more  relaxed and confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Wahda conclude their AFC Champions  League campaign against Bunyodkor in Tashkent and Hickesberger conceded  he will give some of his fringe players a chance against the Uzbeks.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cLike today for sure I will rest some key players as we have a key  game four days after that match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne must  understand our position as we are close to winning the UAE league and  making the trip to Uzbekistan will be tough.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Abu Dhabi, Zobahan coach Mansour Ebrahimzadeh admitted his side failed to turn up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2695,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}