{"id":40489,"date":"2020-09-25T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40489"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:54:49","slug":"esteghlal-players-are-tired-but-ready-for-pakhtakor-namjoo-motlagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/25\/esteghlal-players-are-tired-but-ready-for-pakhtakor-namjoo-motlagh\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal players are tired but ready for Pakhtakor: Namjoo Motlagh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Esteghlal coach Majid Namjoo Motlagh says that his players are tired but they will be ready for Pakhtakor match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s Esteghlal will face Uzbek champions Pakhtakor in the 2020 AFC Champions League Round of 16 at Al Janoub Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve analyzed our opponents and identified their weaknesses and strengths. I hope we show a good performance against them,\u201d Namjoo Motlagh said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe played well against Al Ahli but we have several injured players for the match against Pakhtakor. Our players still are a little tired of the previous match but we will do our best to prepare them physically and mentally,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Wahda of the UAE pulled out from the competition due to COVID-19 and Esteghlal advanced from Group A as runners-up behind Al Ahli. Namjoo Motlagh believes that they could have qualified for the knockout stage as the table toppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal could have advanced to the Round of 16 as the first team, if Al Wahda had not withdrawn from the competition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Esteghlal coach Majid Namjoo Motlagh says that his players are tired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":568,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40489","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=40489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40491,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40489\/revisions\/40491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}