{"id":28862,"date":"2017-08-23T14:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28862"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:34:01","slug":"persepolis-coach-branko-happy-with-draw-against-al-ahli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/08\/23\/persepolis-coach-branko-happy-with-draw-against-al-ahli\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis coach Branko happy with draw against Al Ahli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MUSCAT, <strong>Iran&#8217;s Persepolis football team&#8217;s coach Branko Ivankovic says that he is content with his team\u2019s performance against Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis football team of Iran stormed back from two goals down to draw with Al Ahli in the first leg of the 2017 AFC Champions League quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giant will face Al Ahli three weeks later in the second leg in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy because we came back from two goals down. Now, we have a chance to book a place in the competition\u2019s semis,\u201d Branko said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve already said, Al Ahli is a dangerous team and takes advantage of players like Omar Al Soma and Leonardo da Silva,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank my players because they didn\u2019t lost their concentration after receiving two goals. I hope we defeat Al Ahli in the second leg,\u201d Branko concluded.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MUSCAT, Iran&#8217;s Persepolis football team&#8217;s coach Branko Ivankovic says that he is content&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":3622,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862","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=28862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}