{"id":33156,"date":"2018-08-16T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33156"},"modified":"2018-08-16T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T21:04:56","slug":"jahanbakhsh-looking-forward-to-home-debut-against-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/16\/jahanbakhsh-looking-forward-to-home-debut-against-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahanbakhsh looking forward to home debut against Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sussex Express &#8211; BRIGHTON, <strong>Alireza Jahanbakhsh cannot wait to run out at the Amex for the first time in the Premier League on Sunday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian winger joined Brighton for a reported club record fee of \u00a317m from AZ Alkmaar last month and came off the bench to make his debut in Saturday\u2019s 2-0 opening-day defeat at Watford. <\/p>\n<p>Brighton face all of last season\u2019s top four in their next six games, beginning with Manchester United this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Albion beat United 1-0 at the Amex in May to seal Premier League survival last season and Jahanhbakhsh is excited to test himself against some of the top clubs in England. <\/p>\n<p>After Sunday\u2019s match with United, Albion travel to Liverpool next weekend and Jahanbakhsh said: \u201cEvery game is big and every opponent in the Premier League is a good side and will try to win every single game. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cManchester United is a big club and it would nice to play against them, but I am more looking forward to playing a home game in front of our fans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a new player, you want to have a good performance in your home games and it\u2019s exactly the same for me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always just do my best for the club, with good performances, and whenever the team needs me I will just do my thing and help my team-mates, my team and the manager to get the best results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh was part of the Iran squad at this summer\u2019s World Cup and added: \u201cAs a new player coming into the Premier League, it\u2019s always nice to play against such teams. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew before it\u2019s not going to be easy playing against such quality teams, with big names. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been a dream for me just to be in the best competition in the world. I\u2019m already there, so I just have to get ready to settle myself as soon as possible, get to know all of my team-mates and all of the situations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to play against such great teams. I played against big teams in the World Cup but as a club, this is something different and I\u2019m really looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sussex Express &#8211; BRIGHTON, Alireza Jahanbakhsh cannot wait to run out at the Amex for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":878,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156","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=33156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33158,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156\/revisions\/33158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}