{"id":41396,"date":"2021-01-10T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41396"},"modified":"2021-01-10T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T17:32:03","slug":"esteghlal-ready-to-beat-persepolis-mahmoud-fekri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/01\/10\/esteghlal-ready-to-beat-persepolis-mahmoud-fekri\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal ready to beat Persepolis: Mahmoud Fekri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team head coach Mahmoud Fekri says that they are well-prepared to beat Persepolis at the Tehran derby.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran Professional League leaders Esteghlal are to meet holders Persepolis on Monday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will be prepared to battle with a desire to win because we know how important that game is going to be for both teams,\u201d Fekri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know that so many people around the world will follow the match and we have to avoid being involved in the controversy. This is a sport competition and both teams will have to consider sportsmanship,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal are going to end their eight-year\u2019s title drought. The win in the match will cement their place at top of the IPL table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to lose the match but will not play not to lose. We will do our best and play calmly to defeat Persepolis. Persepolis play an attacking football and we have to control the match at the first minutes of the game,\u2019 Fekri went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal will play logically on Monday and I hope we will be happy at the end of the day. We want to make our fans happy,\u201d Fekri concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team head coach Mahmoud Fekri says that they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,84,164,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c32-pfdc-editorials","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":662,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41396","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=41396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41398,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41396\/revisions\/41398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}