{"id":12868,"date":"2012-04-18T05:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/18\/denizli-bemoans-last-gasp-equaliser\/"},"modified":"2012-04-18T05:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:03:51","slug":"denizli-bemoans-last-gasp-equaliser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/18\/denizli-bemoans-last-gasp-equaliser\/","title":{"rendered":"Denizli bemoans last-gasp equaliser [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Denizli2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Denizli2.jpg\" height=\"226\" width=\"325\" \/>GOAL &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis boss Mustafa Denizli says his side played emotionally when they missed the chance to secure their progress into the AFC Champions League final 16 after conceding a stoppage-time equaliser in Tuesday&#8217;s 1-1 home draw with Al Gharafa.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Ali Karimi had put the Iranians ahead late in the contest, however 10-man Al Gharafa hit back with a stunning last-gasp leveller from Lawrence Quaye&#8217;s long-range strike.<\/p>\n<p>The late goal meant Persepolis remain top of their group but must wait to secure their qualification for the next phase which Denizli told reporters left hm disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At times, our players were influenced by the crowd and they played emotionally when we wanted to score quickly,&#8221; the Persepolis coach said. &#8220;This draw has disappointed all of us because we wanted to have 10 points after this match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Denizli wasn&#8217;t too downbeat with his side still in control of the group with eight points after four matches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still in charge of our own destiny as far as qualification for the next round is concerned and we are not going to concern ourselves with other results,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Al Gharafa boss Paulo Silas hailed the result for his side which he said was an &#8220;important achievement for Qatari football&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We achieved an honour by earning a point at the Azadi Stadium. It is also an important achievement for Qatari football,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\/?p=3427\">post match interviews from <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>PFDCTV<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hyEn1bsB0u4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hyEn1bsB0u4<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis boss Mustafa Denizli says his side played emotionally when they missed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3419,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868","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=12868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}