{"id":12103,"date":"2011-04-21T04:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T11:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/21\/solid-gharafa-show-satisfies-metsu\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T04:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T11:55:31","slug":"solid-gharafa-show-satisfies-metsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/21\/solid-gharafa-show-satisfies-metsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid Gharafa show satisfies Metsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"GhalenoeiSad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/GhalenoeiSad.jpg\" height=\"314\" width=\"330\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Boss Bruno Metsu was delighted with a solid team performance as Al  Gharafa boosted their hopes of reaching the last 16 in the 2011 AFC  Champions League with a 1-0 win over Sepahan at Al Gharafa Stadium. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amara Diane struck in the 19th minute of the Group A contest and  Juninho missed a penalty in the second-half as they collected their  first win of the campaign and inflicted Sepahan\u2019s first defeat in the  process.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gharafa now move on to four points, although they still trail leaders Sepahan by five with two games to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all I&#8217;d like to say it was a tough game because Sepahan are a strong team at the Asian level,\u201d said Metsu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  first 10 minutes were really dangerous. We had to change the formation  but I would like to say that Amara (Diane) played really well for us.  This was a pressure match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have another injury to Otman El Assas so that&#8217;s more problems for us. We also missed a penalty but that&#8217;s football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  am happy with the players. They gave their best, it is a young team.  Results like this are good for the future. It gives us hope.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan  boss Amir Ghalenoei afterwards criticized the referee for disallowing  Reza Enayati&#8217;s early goal but Metsu felt the Iranians should have made  more of their chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time you lose a game, teams blame the referee,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  think it is easy to talk about referees after a game. Also you had many  chances to score and did not. So it is not the referee&#8217;s fault that you  missed chances to score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghalenoei did concede, however, that Sepahan were below par.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good match, it was a watchable match. I firstly congratulate Mr. Mestu on the win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  tried to make changes but we are not satisfied because we did not put  up a quality game. I feel my players were tired too because a lot of  travel was involved before arriving here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Boss Bruno Metsu was delighted with a solid team performance as Al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2605,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103","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=12103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}