{"id":40344,"date":"2020-09-14T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40344"},"modified":"2020-09-14T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:40:36","slug":"golmohammadi-optimistic-ahead-of-al-taawoun-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/14\/golmohammadi-optimistic-ahead-of-al-taawoun-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Golmohammadi optimistic ahead of Al Taawoun match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Persepolis coach Yahya Golmohammadi is fully aware that the match against Al Taawoun is very deciding match for them but he is optimistic they can defeat their rivals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s Persepolis and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Taawoun will lock horn at Education City Stadium in the second 2020 AFC Champions League Group C fixture on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis resume their continental duties on a high, having secured their fourth consecutive Iran Pro League title with a 14-point margin. Al Taawoun, meanwhile, survived a domestic scare, managing to avoid relegation on the final day of the season, having finished third in 2018-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the AFC Champions League front, Al Taawoun started brightly, winning their opening two matches against Emirati team Sharjah and Al Duhail of Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are ready for this match since we are Persepolis and are obliged to fight for the win. It will be a tough match since they are table toppers but our players are well-prepared for the match,\u201d Golmohammadi said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a team with a big heart and our players try to make the team proud. Mehdi Torabi and Ali Alipour have left us and it could be a blow to us but we have signed several new players and they can fill their empty places,\u201d the ex-Iran defender added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have enough time to prepare the team but I am optimistic about the match and know that our players will do their best to win the game,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Persepolis coach Yahya Golmohammadi is fully aware that the match against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40344","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":319,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40344","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=40344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40346,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40344\/revisions\/40346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}