{"id":27304,"date":"2017-02-21T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27304"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:34:40","slug":"esteghlal-didnt-deserve-defeat-alireza-mansourian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/21\/esteghlal-didnt-deserve-defeat-alireza-mansourian\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Esteghlal didn\u2019t deserve defeat&#8221;: Alireza Mansourian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Esteghlal football team&#8217;s head coach Alireza Mansourian said his men didn\u2019t deserve to lose against Al Ahli of the UAE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team was defeated against Al Ahli 2-1 on Monday evening in Dubai\u2019s Rashid Stadium in Group A of the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were the better team in the first half and Al Ahli played better in the second half. I think our players are inexperienced and need more time to become professional,\u201d Mansourian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal could have won the match 2-1 but lacked a cutting edge. We didn\u2019t deserve to lose in this match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a tough match against Al Taawoun of Saudi Arabia next week and from now on we concentrate on the match,\u201d Mansourian said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, Esteghlal football team&#8217;s head coach Alireza Mansourian said his men didn\u2019t deserve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2808,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304","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=27304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}