{"id":26213,"date":"2016-10-05T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26213"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:18:23","slug":"we-want-to-win-against-uzbekistan-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/10\/05\/we-want-to-win-against-uzbekistan-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"“We want to win against Uzbekistan”: Carlos Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tasnim – TASHKENT, Iranian national football team’s coach Carlos Queiroz says that Team Melli is going to secure a win against Uzbekistan in the 2018 World Cup qualification in Group A.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran will play the group leader in Tashkent\u2019s Bunyodkor Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will play against the best team in our group. Uzbekistan won its first two matches and is leader in Group A. Nonetheless, my team will try to secure the win for the Iranian people,\u201d Queiroz told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy team is clearly improving year on year. When I began to work in Iran we had only one player playing for a European side, now we have 11 who are at various clubs in Europe,\u201d Queiroz said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Ashkan] Dejagah and [Alireza] Jahanbakhsh was injured some time ago, but they have recovered and are ready to play against Uzbekistan. It is good news for Iran and bad news for Uzbekistan. Of course, Iran has star players aside from those two, we are a team not individuals, and we have no player selection issues for the game,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Uzbekistan national football team’s coach Samvel Babayan believes that Iran is Group A favorite in the 2018 World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n

\u201cThursday\u2019s game see us come up against the group favorite. They are the number one ranked team in Asia and they have many high level players playing at European teams. But we have studied Iran very well and we will try to show good football,\u201d Babayan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are all strong teams at this stage of qualifying. For example, Syria showed a good performance against both us and Korea Republic in the first two matches.”<\/p>\n

“Each game we play becomes the most important game at this stage. But we are thinking only of Iran now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe watched many of their games and we will try to find way to beat them. My players are ready for any situation in the match and our aim is to win,\u201d Uzbekistan coach stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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