{"id":33606,"date":"2018-10-03T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33606"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:00:52","slug":"al-sadd-has-no-choice-but-to-win-in-tehran-jesualdo-ferreira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/03\/al-sadd-has-no-choice-but-to-win-in-tehran-jesualdo-ferreira\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Sadd has no choice but to win in Tehran: Jesualdo Ferreira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira said they have no choice but to win the return leg against Persepolis in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Qatari side suffered a 1-0 defeat against Persepolis in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-final at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The return leg will be held at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran on October 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team must believe in its potential. There will be an opportunity to score in Tehran and now we are thinking of only one outcome: that is to win the return leg,\u201d Ferreira said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese coach was also critical of the physical game employed by Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian team is a very difficult team. They were playing wrestling and this is not football. We fought a lot over the course of the match. Now we have no choice but to win the return leg, so that we can maintain our chance to compete for the title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We realize how difficult it is to achieve this goal but are determined to achieve it,\u201d the Portuguese coach added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira said they have no choice but to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33606","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"],"views":547,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606","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=33606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33609,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606\/revisions\/33609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}