{"id":29127,"date":"2017-09-19T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29127"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T23:19:36","slug":"persepolis-will-win-acl-title-if-we-beat-al-hilal-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/19\/persepolis-will-win-acl-title-if-we-beat-al-hilal-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Persepolis will win ACL title if we beat Al Hilal&#8221;: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic says that they will lift the 2017 AFC Champions League title if they defeat Al Hilal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giants will face Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal in Abu Dhabi, the UAE on September 26 in the first leg of the ACL semi-final and meet the team on October 17 in Muscat in the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis suffered a 1-0 home defeat to Paykan in Iran Professional League on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo play in domestic league after the AFC Champions League\u2019s competition is always difficult. I had already said in the pre-match news conference the match with Paykan would be dangerous for us,\u201d Branko said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Hilal are a strong team and I had previously said they would qualify for the semis. We also are proud of being in this stage and we are going to enjoy our matches,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis captain Jalal Hosseini missed the matches against Al Ahli in ACL quarters due to his suspension and injury, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHosseini will not play against Sepahan on Wednesday but I hope that he will be fit for the match against Al Hilal,\u201d Branko concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic says that they will lift the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29127","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":3864,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127","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=29127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}