{"id":12152,"date":"2011-05-11T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/11\/hickersberger-hails-wahda-young-guns\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:10:38","slug":"hickersberger-hails-wahda-young-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/11\/hickersberger-hails-wahda-young-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hickersberger hails Wahda young guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/relevant.at\/system\/galleries\/upload\/6\/6\/7\/117687\/news_101229.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"217\" \/>AFC &#8211; Abu Dhabi, <strong>Al Wahda coach Josef Hickersberger was delighted with the  showing from his young side as goals from Salem Saleh and Mohammad Al  Shehhi sealed a 2-0 win over Piroozi at Al Nahyan Stadium, their first  of the 2011 AFC Champions League in their final Group C game.    <br \/><\/strong><br \/>Al Wahda took an early lead when Saleh finished off a fine move  initiated by the Al Wahda goalkeeper Moataz Abdullah in the 13th minute.  <\/p>\n<p>Abdullah picked out the lanky Al Shehhi with his goal kick and  the latter worked his way down the left flank before crossing towards  Saleh, who produced a fierce finish that was too good for Piroozi keeper  Rahman Ahmadi.<\/p>\n<p>Fahad Masaoud then ensured Al Wahda increased  their lead when he delivered a perfect cross and Al Shehhi\u2019s diving  header found the back of the net in the 70th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fully  deserved this win. My team played very well and the quality of football  was good for the fans who enjoyed it,\u201d said Hickersberger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  have many players on the injured list including Fernando Baiano and  Ismail Matar. Matar\u2019s injury is bad and he needs surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut  the young players worked very hard today and showed that we are still a  good side. We had a good team working together and playing with good  team spirit and for that the result was also a good one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will now hope my players recover and be ready for their next game against Sharjah in the League.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Daei, the former Iranian international and coach of Piroozi, admitted his team were lacking motivation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  knew we were out of contention and the players are now looking to do  their best in the Cup semi-final and to finish strongly in the Iranian  League,\u201d he conceded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good game and both teams had good  chances and unfortunately we created and couldn\u2019t score. That\u2019s  football. We couldn\u2019t succeed while they did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were also unlucky with a few offside decisions but we will get back and prepare for the domestic events.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Abu Dhabi, Al Wahda coach Josef Hickersberger was delighted with the showing from&#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-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3052,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152","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=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}