{"id":31409,"date":"2018-04-15T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31409"},"modified":"2018-04-15T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:13:37","slug":"persepolis-want-to-win-group-c-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/15\/persepolis-want-to-win-group-c-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis want to win Group C: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says they\u2019ve already qualified for the next stage but they are going to defeat Al Sadd to win the group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giants can finish as table-toppers in Group C of the 2018 AFC Champions League if they overcome Al Sadd at Azadi Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis have won both of their home games against Uzbekistan\u2019s Nassaf and Al Wasl of the UAE and secured their place in the next round following a scoreless draw away at Nasaf two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis and Al Sadd have already advanced to the knockout stage but we want to finish the group stage as table-toppers,\u201d Ivankovic said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to show how good we are. Persepolis will face Al Sadd as champions of Iran and we\u2019re determined to advance to the knockout stage as winners,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Sadd are a strong team and we have a lot of respect for them. The team take advantage of Xavi who is one of the best players in the world,\u201d Ivankovic explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis will do their best to make their fans happy in the match against Al Sadd. We want our fans enjoy a beautiful match,\u201d the Persepolis coach concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says they\u2019ve already qualified for the next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31409","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":700,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409","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=31409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31411,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31409\/revisions\/31411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}