{"id":33970,"date":"2018-11-03T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33970"},"modified":"2018-11-03T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:03:26","slug":"branko-ivankovic-hits-out-at-referee-after-persepolis-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/11\/03\/branko-ivankovic-hits-out-at-referee-after-persepolis-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic hits out at referee after Persepolis defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KASHIMA, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic blasted Chinese referee Ma Ning and lamented a number of decisions in his team\u2019s defeat against Kashima Antlers of Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team lost to Kashima 2-0 at the Kashima Stadium in the first leg of the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Silva and Serginho scored two goals for the Japanese team.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cFirst, I congratulate Kashima because of the win, but I think we should have won the match. Our players wasted their chances against Kashima,\u201d Ivankoviuc said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ivankovic was furious at the referee\u2019s performance in this match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first half, Kashima defender should have been shown a red card because he prevented our scoring chance. I believe that the referee\u2019s decisions went against us,\u201d Persepolis coach added.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg will be held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Nov. 10 and Ivankovic is optimistic about the home match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fans act as a 12th man and I hope that we win the AFC Champions League in front of more than 80,000 fans at the Azadi Stadium. We know that we have a difficult task ahead but it\u2019s not impossible as we\u2019ve already shown that we can do it,\u201d Ivankovic concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KASHIMA, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic blasted Chinese referee Ma Ning and lamented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33970","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-persepolis"],"views":995,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33970","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=33970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33972,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33970\/revisions\/33972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}