{"id":33145,"date":"2018-08-15T07:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33145"},"modified":"2018-08-15T07:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:13:58","slug":"kranjcar-satisfied-with-draw-against-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/15\/kranjcar-satisfied-with-draw-against-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kranjcar satisfied with draw against Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CIKARANG, <strong>Iran U23 football coach Zlatko Kranjcar is satisfied with the goalless draw against Saudi Arabia in the 2018 Asian Games opener.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Iran and Saudi Arabia shared the spoils in Group F at the Wibawa Mukti Stadium in Cikarang, Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaudi Arabia were the better team in the first half but we controlled the game after the halftime. They had two scoring chances in the first half and we were lucky to come away without conceding a goal,\u201d Zlatko Kranjcar said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a difficult task ahead since Saudi Arabia and North Korea have also a chance of qualifying for the next stage. We will have to defeat North Korea and Myanmar to advance to the next stage,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well-organized against Saudi Arabia and I am satisfied with the character we showed,\u201d Kranjcar concluded.<\/p>\n<p> Football at the 2018 Asian Games is being held from 14 August to 1 September 2018 in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran have a strong legacy in men&#8217;s soccer, having won gold on four occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Zlatko Kranjcar&#8217;s footballers will look to end a drought that extends back to 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CIKARANG, Iran U23 football coach Zlatko Kranjcar is satisfied with the goalless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":652,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145","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=33145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33147,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions\/33147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}