{"id":30940,"date":"2018-02-27T11:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30940"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:46:02","slug":"esteghlal-can-defeat-persepolis-in-tehran-derby-winfried-schafer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/27\/esteghlal-can-defeat-persepolis-in-tehran-derby-winfried-schafer\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal can defeat Persepolis in Tehran derby: Winfried Schafer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; Tehran, <strong>Esteghlal coach Winfried Schafer says that they are capable of beating their arch rivals Persepolis in Tehran derby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal has lost to Persepolis 1-0 in the first half of league season and now are determined to take revenge on them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I liked to face Persepolis in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup final but they failed to advance to the final. It could be a special game in Iran and even in Asia,\u201d the German coach said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I took charge of Esteghlal we were in 15th place but we are in the third place now and it shows we\u2019ve progressed,\u201d Schafer said.<\/p>\n<p>Schafer is asked about who he thinks will win the derby, he said, \u201cEsteghlal can defeat Persepolis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The match has been scheduled to take place in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will win Iran Professional League title with a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; Tehran, Esteghlal coach Winfried Schafer says that they are capable of beating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1385,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940","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=30940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30942,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940\/revisions\/30942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}