{"id":12664,"date":"2012-01-08T21:31:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T05:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/08\/nekounam-beating-barcelona-is-almost-impossible\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T05:31:46","slug":"nekounam-beating-barcelona-is-almost-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/08\/nekounam-beating-barcelona-is-almost-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Nekounam: Beating Barcelona is almost impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Neko_applauding\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Neko_applauding.jpg\" height=\"190\" width=\"285\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; PAMPLONA, <strong>Osasuna midfielder Javad Nekounam said that beating Barcelona is almost impossible.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Osasuna lost to Barcelona 4-0 in first leg of Copa Del Rey round of 16 at the Nou Camp. The Pamplona-based team will host Barcelona in the second leg on Thursday. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, playing with Barcelona is more difficult than playing with any other team and defeating them is almost impossible. They keep possession for very long ant it\u2019s so difficult to beat them,\u201d the 31-year-old said this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuck went against us since we drew with Barcelona in Copa Del Rey but it\u2019s an honor for me facing a good team such a Barcelona. You should run and run when you play Barcelona. It\u2019s not easy to play Barcelona,\u201d Nekounam added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOsasuna has also lost to Real Madrid but playing against Barcelona is more difficult because they don\u2019t give you any chance to score,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Asked him if he would like to score against Barcelona as he has already scored against Real Madrid, Nekounam said, \u201cI like to score against the big teams but my priority is winning,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; PAMPLONA, Osasuna midfielder Javad Nekounam said that beating Barcelona is almost impossible&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":3427,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664","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=12664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}