{"id":31457,"date":"2018-04-17T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T22:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31457"},"modified":"2018-04-17T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T22:55:03","slug":"persepolis-deserved-to-beat-al-sadd-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/17\/persepolis-deserved-to-beat-al-sadd-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis deserved to beat Al Sadd: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran&#8217;s Persepolis football team&#8217;s coach Branko Ivankovic says the club is in a good position following its 1-0 win over Al Sadd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giant edged past the Qatari football team 1-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Monday and advanced to Round of 16 as the table-topper in Group C of the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Ansari whipped in a tricky cross from the left wing and Al Sadd defender Morteza Pouraliganji inadvertently headed past his own keeper to give the host an early lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with the way we played and I think Persepolis deserved to beat Al Sadd,\u201d Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have scored more goals against Al Sadd. I have to say we defeated a strong team and I praise my players,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira blasted the referee\u2019s decisions after the match, saying their goal was not offside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about the official but I don\u2019t think so,\u201d Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran&#8217;s Persepolis football team&#8217;s coach Branko Ivankovic says the club is in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31457","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":977,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457","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=31457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31459,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457\/revisions\/31459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}