{"id":33546,"date":"2018-09-26T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:38:33","slug":"beating-esteghlal-is-a-priority-for-persepolis-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/09\/26\/beating-esteghlal-is-a-priority-for-persepolis-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating Esteghlal is a priority for Persepolis: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says defeating Esteghlal in Tehran derby is a priority for them and he is not going to protect his players from injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will face their arch rivals Esteghlal on Thursday ahead of the key match against Al Sadd of Qatar in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-final scheduled for Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot predict the result of the derby with regard to teams\u2019 positions in the table. Derby is a special match for both teams,\u201d Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to transfer happiness to my players to enjoy the match. We have played good derbies with Esteghlal in the previous matches and it made me happy. I hope we will have a good performance in front of our fans on Thursday,\u201d the Croat said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no injured and suspended players for this match. I think the players will decide the result of the match. I expect a full-packed stadium,\u201d Ivankovic added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to lose and I like to win but it\u2019s not always possible. To attack is our philosophy and I will not change it,\u201d Ivankovic went on to say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says defeating Esteghlal in Tehran derby is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":641,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33548,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions\/33548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}