{"id":35749,"date":"2019-03-12T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35749"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:54:26","slug":"opinion-martin-oneill-rewards-nottingham-forest-player-and-is-instantly-vindicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/12\/opinion-martin-oneill-rewards-nottingham-forest-player-and-is-instantly-vindicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Martin O\u2019Neill rewards Nottingham Forest player and is instantly vindicated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vital Forest &#8211; NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, <strong>Martin O\u2019Neill recalled Karim Ansarifard to the Nottingham Forest first-team on Saturday and was rewarded for introducing him from the bench against Hull City. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 28-year-old came on in the 58<sup>th<\/sup>minute at the City Ground and got himself on the scoresheet less than a quarter-of-an-hour later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was his first goal since\u00a0joining Forest on a free transfer\u00a0in November 2018. Ansarifard was also making his first appearance for the Reds since he came off the bench against Brentford on February 9. He\u2019s only made two appearances since December 2018 and fell further down the pecking order after Leo Bonatini\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Neill, however, has watched the Iran international playing for the u23s and must have been impressed enough to bring him back into the senior squad. And with Ansarifard scoring on his return, he should remain in the 18 against Aston Villa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Olympiacos striker has scored and created two goals in nine appearances in all competitions. With Lewis Grabban, Daryl Murphy and Leo Bonatini all vying for a spot up front, Ansarifard\u2019s chances of playing appeared slim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His hard work has been recognised, however, and now he\u2019s finally bagged his first goal in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vital Forest &#8211; NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Martin O\u2019Neill recalled Karim Ansarifard to the Nottingham Forest first-team on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":914,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749","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=35749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35751,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749\/revisions\/35751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}