{"id":40540,"date":"2020-09-29T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40540"},"modified":"2020-09-29T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:34:44","slug":"pakhtakor-very-tough-opponents-but-were-ready-golmohammadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/29\/pakhtakor-very-tough-opponents-but-were-ready-golmohammadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakhtakor very tough opponents but we\u2019re ready: Golmohammadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Persepolis head coach Yahya Golmohammadi says that they know how strong Pakhtakor are but they are ready to defeat them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian giants are scheduled to meet Pakhtakor on Wednesday in the AFC Champions League (west) quarter-finals at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakhtakor defeated Iranian team Esteghlal to reach quarters, while Persepolis edge Al Sadd of Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I wish good health for Shota Arveladze who suffers from COVID-19 and wish him a speedy recovery,\u201d Golmohammadi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe expect a very tough match because Pakhtakor are physically strong but we are ready. We have passed difficult situation to reach the stage and don\u2019t want to lose our chance easily. &nbsp;Our players are highly-motivated for this match and are ready for this tough challenge mentally,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to play a team who have had one extra day of rest compared to us and are in good condition. Pakhtakor are an organized well-disciplined team and we will have to play with more energy against them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will not be an easy match for us for sure but we are determined to fight for our place in the semis. There will always be ups and downs and you will likely score an early goal and concede and early goal too but I think our players have already experienced these parts of football and can fight back,\u201d the former Iran defender stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPersepolis players will never get tired of winning and our fans send us their positive energy and support us from distance. We hope we can make our fans happy,\u201d Golmohammadi concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Persepolis head coach Yahya Golmohammadi says that they know how strong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40540","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":471,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540","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=40540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40542,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540\/revisions\/40542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}