{"id":24248,"date":"2016-02-08T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24248"},"modified":"2016-02-08T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:51:46","slug":"both-teams-will-be-looking-to-qualify-naft-coach-mansourian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/08\/both-teams-will-be-looking-to-qualify-naft-coach-mansourian\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Both teams will be looking to qualify&#8221;: Naft Coach Mansourian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Naft Tehran coach Alireza Mansourian said they will have a difficult task against El Jaish in the playoff rounds of the 2016 AFC Champions League since the Qatari team knows them better compared to last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naft Tehran will meet El Jaish on Tuesday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in a repeat of the fixture involving the two teams last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team defeated El Jaish 1-0 last year before going on a run that ended at the quarter-final stage.<\/p>\n<p>Naft coach Alireza Mansourian is hoping history repeats itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur analysts have reviewed El Jaish\u2019s recent matches,\u201d said the former World Cup midfielder. \u201cWe have watched their last two, three games. They\u2019ve improved and they have kept the same coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth teams are looking to qualify from the playoffs. Last year we faced them and our fans were a great help. This year, our task is more difficult since El Jaish now have got to know us better compared to last year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will try to get our team beyond this stage since it\u2019s a one-off match and we have to be prepared,\u201d Mansourian concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Naft Tehran coach Alireza Mansourian said they will have a difficult task&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1414,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24248","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=24248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}