{"id":20396,"date":"2015-01-25T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20396"},"modified":"2015-01-25T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:27:12","slug":"ashkan-dejagah-feels-iran-didnt-deserve-to-lose-against-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/25\/ashkan-dejagah-feels-iran-didnt-deserve-to-lose-against-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashkan Dejagah feels Iran didn\u2019t deserve to lose against Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CANBERRA, <strong>Iran iconic midfielder Ashkan Dejagah discussed how he felt his team didn&#8217;t deserve to lose against Iraq in the quarter-final round of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Iran, who was reduced to 10-man in the first half, lost to Iraqi football team 7-6 on the penalty shootout after the two teams finished all square at 3-3 at the end of extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t think we deserved to lose against Iraq. Without the red card we probably would have won the game,\u201d Dejagah said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t know why referee (Ben Williams) showed Mehrdad Pooladi his second yellow card,\u201d Dejagah said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received pain injections before the match and did my best to win but I was not 100 per cent fit to face Iraq,\u201d former Fulham midfielder added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CANBERRA, Iran iconic midfielder Ashkan Dejagah discussed how he felt his team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3484,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}