{"id":31412,"date":"2018-04-15T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31412"},"modified":"2018-04-15T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:15:11","slug":"al-sadd-determined-to-beat-persepolis-jesualdo-ferreira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/15\/al-sadd-determined-to-beat-persepolis-jesualdo-ferreira\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Sadd determined to beat Persepolis: Jesualdo Ferreira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira says that to play against Iranian giants Persepolis is a great honor for them but they are here to win the match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd can finish as table-toppers in Group C of the 2018 AFC Champions League with even a draw against Persepolis at the Azadi Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd currently occupy first position and two more goals from striker Baghdad Bounedjah in a 2-1 victory over Al Wasl in early April confirmed a place in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I have to say to play Persepolis in Tehran is a great honor for us. Persepolis are a strong team and both teams want to win the group,\u201d Ferreira said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis and Al Sadd have no stress since they have already secured their places in Round of 16. I think the Azadi Stadium is a great atmosphere to play in,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis key players Mohsen Rabikhah and Farshad Ahmadzadeh will miss the match against Al Sadd due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for telling me about the players but Persepolis are a great team and have so many good players. They want to win the match and we also focus to earn three points,\u201d Jesualdo told the reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira says that to play against Iranian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31412","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":750,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412","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=31412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31414,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31412\/revisions\/31414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}