{"id":33295,"date":"2018-08-30T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33295"},"modified":"2018-08-30T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:52:16","slug":"ivankovic-optimistic-over-persepoliss-return-leg-against-al-duhail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/30\/ivankovic-optimistic-over-persepoliss-return-leg-against-al-duhail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivankovic optimistic over Persepolis\u2019s return leg against Al Duhail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic believes they can overcome their one-goal deficit and defeat Al Duhail in the return leg in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis lost to the Qatari giants in the first leg of the 2018 AFC Champions League quarter-finals at the Khalifa International Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian champions will host Al Duhail in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Duhail are among the Asian strongest teams but we can defeat them in Tehran in front of our 80,000 fans,\u201d Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost in the first leg and I am not satisfied with the result but a 1-0 loss can keep our hopes alive in the return leg,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis could have equalized the match, however we lost to a team who have defeated their rivals,\u201d Ivankovic concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic believes they can overcome their one-goal deficit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33295","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":545,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295","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=33295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33297,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295\/revisions\/33297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}