{"id":23899,"date":"2016-01-12T15:34:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23899"},"modified":"2016-01-13T03:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:21:42","slug":"we-controlled-match-in-the-second-half-khakpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/12\/we-controlled-match-in-the-second-half-khakpour\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We controlled the match in the second half&#8221;: Khakpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran coach Mohammad Khakpour said that his team controlled the match in the second half against Syria in the AFC U-23 Championship opening match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Syria 2-0 in Group A thanks to two goals from Amir Arsalan Motahhari and Mehrdad Mohammadi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese young men are the future of football in our country \u2013 and hopefully in Asia \u2013 but they\u2019re young and they were stressed because this was the first game of the tournament and they didn\u2019t perform well,\u201d said Khakpour of his team\u2019s first half performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second half I asked them to just enjoy the game thereafter and I guess they did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the game is 90 minutes long and we never give up. We had studied Syria pretty well and we knew who are their key players but it was just that our players were a little stressed in the first half,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in the second half we controlled the game and the players enjoyed the game and that\u2019s why we won,\u201d Khakpour concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iran coach Mohammad Khakpour said that his team controlled the match in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1672,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23899","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=23899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}