{"id":27182,"date":"2017-02-12T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27182"},"modified":"2017-02-12T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:46:19","slug":"branko-ivankovic-apologizes-following-defeat-against-esteghlal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/12\/branko-ivankovic-apologizes-following-defeat-against-esteghlal\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic apologizes following defeat against Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Branko Ivankovic has apologized to Persepolis fans following the Reds\u2019 defeat at the hands of Esteghlal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis suffered a 3-2 defeat against their arch rivals Esteghlal in Tehran derby in front of more than 70,000 spectators at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sorry we could not make our fans happy in the biggest match of the Iran football. I cannot criticize my players because they did their best in this match,\u201d Branko said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal created a few chances and scored three times. Our players were ready for this match but I have to say we lost to a very good team. I believe that two teams played a good football but Esteghlal were better,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom now on, we concentrate on Sepahan match. Sepahan has been one of the best Iranian teams in the past 10 years. It will be a difficult match for us without a doubt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be ready for AFC Champions League match against Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia as well. Persepolis have been drawn in a tough group in the competition,\u201d Branko said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Branko Ivankovic has apologized to Persepolis fans following the Reds\u2019 defeat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3001,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182","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=27182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}