{"id":25175,"date":"2016-05-15T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T00:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25175"},"modified":"2016-05-15T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T00:04:33","slug":"conceding-a-lot-of-goals-cost-us-the-title-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/05\/15\/conceding-a-lot-of-goals-cost-us-the-title-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Conceding a lot of goals cost us the title&#8221;: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Branko Ivankovic believes that Persepolis\u2019s defenders\u2019 and goalkeeper\u2019s poor performances cost them the title as it finished in second place behind Esteghlal Khuzestan on goal difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank all of our fans who supported us from the very first until the end of the season. We didn\u2019t win the title but we feel like champions because we shared the title with Esteghlal Khuzestan and lost it on goal difference,\u201d Branko told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA team who wants to win the league title must be strong in each post. We were the best team in offence as we scored 50 goals but we had a poor performance in defence. We conceded a lot of easy goals, for example the game against Gostaresh Foolad which we won 4-2; we conceded two goals while they didn\u2019t have even one chance,\u201d the Croatian coach added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve signed a contract with the ultimate aim of winning the AFC Champions League. We will definitely improve our squad and bring new faces in order to improve the team\u2019s performance. We will fight in three different tournaments next season so we need a large and strong group of players,\u201d the 62-year-old coach added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will promise our fans we will be stronger next season and will do whatever to make them happy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal Khuzestan and Persepolis finished the season with 57 points but Ahvaz based club win the title on a superior goal average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Branko Ivankovic believes that Persepolis\u2019s defenders\u2019 and goalkeeper\u2019s poor performances cost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2001,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25175","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=25175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}