{"id":35107,"date":"2019-01-19T12:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35107"},"modified":"2019-01-19T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T20:06:06","slug":"oman-will-be-tough-ashkan-dejagah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/19\/oman-will-be-tough-ashkan-dejagah\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman will be tough: Ashkan Dejagah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AFC – ABU DHABI, Iran midfielder Ashkan Dejagah stated that they <\/strong>are<\/strong><\/g> braced for a tough AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 Round of 16 <\/strong>clash<\/strong><\/g> with Oman at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oman will be highly motivated after sealing a berth in the knockout stage for the first time and the Iranian captain said that can make it very dangerous for Team Melli, who are chasing a fourth Continental title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think it\u2019s going to be a tough game. Going forward every team we face is going to be highly motivated. We\u2019ve played Oman a couple of times before, they have a good team.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We should only focus on our game, we should be able to put pressure on them from the first minute, so that we can achieve victory,” said the Tractorsazi player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I believe Oman is going to play with lots of motivation, they played well against Japan and Uzbekistan. Nevertheless, our team is strong as well, we\u2019ve proved this. This is a new game, it\u2019s not the group stage anymore. We should take it seriously and be united in putting in effort<\/g>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dejagah played the entire 90 minutes against Yemen and Vietnam but was rested for the Iraq tie, coming on in the final 10 minutes and he has been a rock in Iran’s campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Thankfully, it\u2019s been good for both me and my team. I\u2019ve faced a lot of adversity in the last one-two years, I had a lot of injuries. Nonetheless, I\u2019m glad that I\u2019m in the squad. I can only thank the players of my team, who support me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dejagah, who scored once in the win over Yemen, said memories of Iran’s defeat to Iraq in the quarter-finals of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup still burns in his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I still think about it sometimes, it hurts. Because we had a great team, and we were progressing very well. We should be focused every minute, a small mistake can the ruin the game. This happened four years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We should learn from our mistakes, Oman is a very important game. We should only be thinking about this game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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