{"id":37951,"date":"2019-11-13T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37951"},"modified":"2019-11-13T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:19:18","slug":"iran-focused-on-match-against-iraq-marc-wilmots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/13\/iran-focused-on-match-against-iraq-marc-wilmots\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran focused on match against Iraq: Marc Wilmots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMMAN,\u00a0<strong>Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots says that they are focused on putting on a good display against Iraq at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will meet their archrivals on Matchday 5 of Asia&#8217;s second round of qualifying on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group C leaders Iraq entertain Iran in neutral Amman as the two sides resume what is one of Asia&#8217;s most well-known rivalries, one which dates back all the way to 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe venue has been changed but I think it doesn&#8217;t have much effect on the result. This is our third away matches out of four and we are focused on putting on a good performance against Iraq. Our primary focus is on our style of play,\u201d the Belgian coach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know the importance of the result, but we should not feel the pressure. We are focused on booking a place at the 2022 World Cup for the third time in a row,\u201d Wilmots concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq coach Srecko Katanec is not happy with facing Iran in Amman but says they have to accept the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq had been due to play in Basra but the southern port city has been caught up in the anti-government demonstrations and FIFA requested an alternative venue because of ongoing protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur first goal is to win the match. Iran are one of the most powerful teams in Asia but we know them well. I preferred to meet Iran in our venue in Basra in front of our fans but the situation changed,\u201d the Slovenian coach said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMMAN,\u00a0Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots says that they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":966,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951","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=37951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37953,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37951\/revisions\/37953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}