{"id":20682,"date":"2015-03-02T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20682"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:03:29","slug":"persepolis-seeking-victory-over-bunyodkor-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/03\/02\/persepolis-seeking-victory-over-bunyodkor-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Persepolis Seeking Victory over Bunyodkor&#8221; &#8211; Derakhshan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Tehran&#8217;s Persepolis football team coach Hamid Derakhshan said his men are going to defeat Uzbekistan&#8217;s Bunyodkor in Group A of the 2015 AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will meet Uzbekistan\u2019s Bunyodkor in Tashkent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giant topped the group after defeating Lekhwiya 3-0, while Bunyodkor drew with Al Nasr of Saudi Arabia 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope Persepolis will do its best against Bunyodkor. We have a good knowledge of them and know they are a good team,&#8221; Derakhshan said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had a good start in the AFC Champions League and want to defeat them on their soil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefeating Lekhwiya 3-0 was a good result but it\u2019s not enough and we have to keep going,\u201d Persepolis coach added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Uzbekistan&#8217;s Bunyodkor football team head coach Sergey Lushan said that Persepolis match is very difficult for his team.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan\u2019s Bunyodkor will host Persepolis in Tashkent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a difficult match for us since Persepolis is a strong team.  They took advantage of their opportunities in the match against Lekhwiya. We expect a difficult job against Persepolis,\u201d Sergey Lushan said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis has a several quality players. They are physically impressive. I know we have a difficult match tomorrow,\u201d the coach added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have plans for this match but I will not talk about them at the moment. Overall, we will try to get a good result against Persepolis,\u201d  Lushan added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TASHKENT, Tehran&#8217;s Persepolis football team coach Hamid Derakhshan said his men are going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":2383,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682","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=20682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}