{"id":11192,"date":"2010-04-26T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/26\/sepahan-eye-victory-in-al-ain\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:13:34","slug":"sepahan-eye-victory-in-al-ain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/26\/sepahan-eye-victory-in-al-ain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan eye victory in Al Ain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Ghalenoiee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Ghalenoiee.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"230\" \/>AFC &#8211; AL AIN, <strong>Sepahan boss Amir Ghalenoei wants his side to take control of their own  AFC Champions League destiny when they face Al Ain at Sheikh Khalifa  International Stadium on Wednesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Group C leaders Pakhtakor, Sepahan and Al Ain all in  contention for two places in the last 16, the final round of games  promise to be a dramatic and tense affair.<\/p>\n<p>Victory over a side  they drew 0-0 with in the previous fixture in Esfahan, however, will  guarantee the Iranians&#8217; progression and that is exactly what Ghalenoei  wants from his men. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a critical game for us. We have to  win to go through to the next round and that is what we intend to do,\u201d  he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not want to depend on other results. We want to  win and try and finish as group leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Ain have nothing to  lose, which is always a pressure match for us. They will play in  whatever manner they want and we have to be very careful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Ain  are a big club and have always been a dangerous team at home. But we  are fully prepared and will be only missing Ahmad Jamshidian due to  suspension. Otherwise it is a full and fit squad and we are ready.<\/p>\n<p>Al  Ain, who sacked coach Toninho Cerezo after the 3-2 defeat to Pakhtakor  in Tashkent, will be guided by replacement Abdulhameed Al Misthiki.<\/p>\n<p>And  the club&#8217;s former under-17 coach said is looking for a maximum return  even though Al Ain&#8217;s campaign will come to an end after Tuesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor  me it is about club and country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to  help any club advance to the next round. We will play to win as it is a  matter of our prestige.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough we will be missing many of our  regular players due to suspensions and injuries, we do have strong bench  strength and we will put up a good showing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musallem Al  Hamdani, Emerson and Jorge Luis Valdivia are all suspended for the  clash, while Saif Mohammad and Ismail Ahmad are on the injured list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; AL AIN, Sepahan boss Amir Ghalenoei wants his side to take control of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2310,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192","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=11192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}