{"id":27381,"date":"2017-03-01T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27381"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:00:06","slug":"persepolis-deserved-win-over-al-wahda-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/01\/persepolis-deserved-win-over-al-wahda-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Persepolis deserved win over Al Wahda&#8221;: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic praised his players after defeating Al Wahda and said that they deserved to win the match.<\/strong><br \/>\nIran\u2019s Persepolis came from behind to defeat Al Wahda of the UAE 3-2 in Group D of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to congratulate my players for a good game,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was a real hard game but we deserved it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We led 1-0 in the first half and missed a few good scoring opportunities. Had we scored another goal or two the game would have been safer for us, because I know players like [Sebastian] Tagliabue, Valdivia and Matar are dangerous and can turn the game around at any time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a first win for Persepolis in this year\u2019s competition after it was held to a 1-1 draw by Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia in its opener.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a group of death and the three points are very important for us to keep our hopes of qualifying to the knockout round,&#8221; Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Al Wahda coach Javier Aguirre says that they played better against Persepolis in second half but did not advantage of their chances.<\/p>\n<p>The Emirati team almost won the match 2-1 but conceded two goals in the last 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After taking the lead we had two clear scoring chances that could have killed the game. But that didn\u2019t happen,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We played better in the second half, however, we fell flat in the last 10 minutes, perhaps, the players panicked,&#8221; Aguirre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic praised his players after defeating Al Wahda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":19110,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27381","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=27381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}