{"id":40492,"date":"2020-09-26T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40492"},"modified":"2020-09-26T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:01:21","slug":"persepolis-have-tough-match-against-al-sadd-bashar-resan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/26\/persepolis-have-tough-match-against-al-sadd-bashar-resan\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis have tough match against Al-Sadd: Bashar Resan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Persepolis iconic midfielder Bashar Resan says that they will have a difficult match against Al-Sadd of Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian team powered past Sharjah 4-0 in Group C of the AFC Champions league and will meet Al-Sadd of Qatar on Sunday in the competition\u2019s quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe dominated the match right from the beginning and we sealed the win in the first half,\u201d said the Iraqi midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the second half, we held back a bit as we were confident of having secured our place in the next round.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resan paid tribute to the technical staff of Persepolis, who had studied the strengths of a Sharjah side buoyant after its 6-0 win against Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Taawoun FC on Matchday Five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur technical staff studied Sharjah very well and we knew that they have three, four players who have great individual skills. We were strong defensively as a team and we took advantage of the chances to secure victory,\u201d said Resan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resan said Persepolis is unfazed about having to face Xavi&#8217;s Al-Sadd on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe finished the group on top and now we will play against Al-Sadd in a tough match,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, our ambition is to go as far as the final match of the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Persepolis iconic midfielder Bashar Resan says that they will have a difficult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,172,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":371,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492","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=40492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40494,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions\/40494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}