{"id":40517,"date":"2020-09-28T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40517"},"modified":"2020-09-28T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:22:08","slug":"persepolis-deserved-the-win-against-al-sadd-golmohammadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/28\/persepolis-deserved-the-win-against-al-sadd-golmohammadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis deserved the win against Al Sadd: Golmohammadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Persepolis coach Yahya Golmohammadi says that they deserved to defeat Qatar\u2019s Al Sadd in the 2020 AFC Champions League Round of 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday night, the Iranian giants edged past Al Sadd at the Education City Stadium thanks to Issa Alekasir\u2019s late goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very happy for the win because it was a tough match. We came here with so many problems but deservedly won the match. Al Sadd benefit from several attacking players but we could stop them with a good defensive performance,\u201d Golmohammadi said after the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would like to dedicate the win to our fans. I also want to thank my players who made the Iranian fans proud. They played with all their might and completely dedicated themselves to the game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Persepolis qualified for the AFC Champions League finals in 2018, where the Reds lost to Japan\u2019s Kashima Antlers 2-0 on aggregate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golmohammadi says that they have a difficult task ahead to repeat the success but will do their best to make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have reached quarter-finals while we were fourth in Group C. We did a great job but we are not finished yet. We know that every team in the quarters are a strong team. We will concentrate on the next match since we want to keep going our good run,\u201d Golmohammadi stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Persepolis coach Yahya Golmohammadi says that they deserved to defeat Qatar\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40517","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"],"views":405,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40517","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=40517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40519,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40517\/revisions\/40519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}