{"id":42232,"date":"2021-04-24T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42232"},"modified":"2021-04-24T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T16:28:05","slug":"fighting-spirit-paved-way-for-win-khatibi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/04\/24\/fighting-spirit-paved-way-for-win-khatibi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting spirit paved way for win: Rasoul Khatibi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; SHARJAH, <strong>Tractor football team head coach Rasoul Khatibi credited his side\u2019s fighting spirit for their 1-0 victory over Air Force Club on Matchday Four of the 2021 AFC Champions League Group B on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Tikdari\u2019s fastest goal of the 2021 AFC Champions League was the difference at the final whistle, the Tractor forward firing home a rebound after Peyman Babaei\u2019s initial chance was stopped by goalkeeper Fahad Taleb inside two minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win took Tractor to six points, two behind leader Sharjah of the UAE, while Air Force Club is on two points. Uzbekistan&#8217;s Pakhtakor is third in the standings with three points. Air Force Club faces Sharjah on Monday while Tractor plays Pakhtakor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe hadn\u2019t won in our previous three games,\u201d said Khatibi. \u201cBut before this game I told my players if we keep fighting and try hard, we will eventually get the win. Fighting spirit paved the way to win the match.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would have preferred if Air Force Club had not lost a man to a red card, because after the red card they all doubled their efforts to compensate for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had to keep some players out to inject new energy and freshness into the team and I hope we can have a similar approach in the next game. This match is now behind us and from this second on, we turn our attention to the next one,\u201d Khatibi concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SHARJAH, Tractor football team head coach Rasoul Khatibi credited his side\u2019s fighting spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-tractor-sazi"],"views":787,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232","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=42232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42235,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232\/revisions\/42235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}