{"id":12019,"date":"2011-03-16T05:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/16\/ebrahimzadeh-zob-ahan-in-the-firing-line\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T05:43:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:43:06","slug":"ebrahimzadeh-zob-ahan-in-the-firing-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/16\/ebrahimzadeh-zob-ahan-in-the-firing-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebrahimzadeh: Zob Ahan in the firing line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Ebrahimzadeh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Ebrahimzadeh.jpg\" height=\"289\" width=\"445\" \/>AFC &#8211; RIYADH, <strong>Zob Ahan head coach Mansour Ebrahimzadeh believes every team in the AFC  Champions League will be out to beat his side after reaching the final  last year. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian side travel to Saudi Arabia to take on Al Shabab on  Wednesday looking to build on their win over Emirates in their opening  Group D clash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll teams in Asia including Al Shabab are determined to stop last year\u2019s runners-up,\u201d said Ebrahimzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally  I believe all teams in the AFC Champions League are strong. I have  studied their recent games. They haven\u2019t played for 10 days but our last  match was six days ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough there\u2019s a lot of pressure on us, we will go into the game with discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ebrahimzadeh stressed his side will be looking to continue their 100% record in the tournament so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s  the third year in a row we have come to Saudi Arabia to play against  team from here like Al Ittihad, Al Hilal and Al Shabab,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl  Shabab progressed very well in the AFC Champions League last year. We  will be at full strength to play against them and will do our best to  beat them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hopeful the football we play tomorrow will meet the level of the Champions League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  fact that we are leading the standings in Iran\u2019s Professional League  shows we have got ability but Al Shabab have good players too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe promise to do our best to get the success we are looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Shabab boss Enzo Trossero admitted his side faced a tough ask tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow\u2019s game in very important for us,\u201d said the former Argentina international. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Shabab will play against a team who have good ability and who we respect a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZob  Ahan have kept many good players from last year. Last year, we played  twice against Ebrahimzadeh, but what will define the winner of  tomorrow\u2019s game is the 90 minutes on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cZob  Ahan is only one point ahead of the second-placed team in the Iran  Professional League. We are in fifth place in our standings, but we  still have one game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, these statistics will not  determine the result of the game tomorrow and they are not a big deal to  me. What is important is the 90 minutes on the pitch tomorrow  afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; RIYADH, Zob Ahan head coach Mansour Ebrahimzadeh believes every team in the AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2480,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019","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=12019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}