{"id":21177,"date":"2015-04-20T08:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21177"},"modified":"2015-04-20T08:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:42:01","slug":"no-choice-but-to-defeat-nasaf-irans-tractor-sazi-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/20\/no-choice-but-to-defeat-nasaf-irans-tractor-sazi-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"No choice but to defeat Nasaf, Iran&#8217;s Tractor Sazi coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Iran&#8217;s Tractor Sazi head coach Toni Oliveira said they must defeat Nasaf Qarshi to keep alive their chances of advancing to the AFC Champions League next round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team is fourth in Group D with four points, four points behind leader Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi will host the Uzbek team in Tabriz\u2019s Yadegar-e Emam Stadium. It has lost to Nasaf 2-1 in late February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a difficult match but I believe that all the teams in the group still have a chance to advance to the next stage,\u201d Oliveira said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTractor has a chance to qualify for the next stage,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;But we have to accept Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli and Al Ahli of the UAE have more chances since they are well-organized teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should put more effort to achieve our goal. I think we can advance to the next stage as the second team,\u201d the Portuguese coach added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TABRIZ, Iran&#8217;s Tractor Sazi head coach Toni Oliveira said they must defeat Nasaf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":21080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":961,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177","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=21177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}