{"id":31722,"date":"2018-05-06T21:04:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31722"},"modified":"2018-05-06T21:04:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:04:31","slug":"persepolis-coach-ivankovic-optimistic-over-al-jazira-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/06\/persepolis-coach-ivankovic-optimistic-over-al-jazira-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis coach Ivankovic optimistic over Al Jazira match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic feels his side are in a good position for the match against Al Jazira in the AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UAE\u2019s Al Jazira will host 2017 semi-finalist Persepolis in the first leg of the Round of 16 at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t be arrogant but we can be confident. Al Jazira are a strong team and want to win the first leg but we are well-prepared for the match. We\u2019ve only missed Jalal Hosseini for this match,\u201d Ivankovic said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Jazira\u2019s domestic form has been poor in the recent games but it doesn\u2019t mean they are a weak team. I watched their match against Al Wahda and despite suffering a 3-0 defeat they showed a good performance. We expect a difficult match against Al Jazira,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis have progressed a lot in the past years and we have to meet the expectations of our fans,\u201d Ivankovic stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic feels his side are in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31722","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":772,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722","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=31722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31724,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions\/31724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}