{"id":42239,"date":"2021-04-25T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42239"},"modified":"2021-04-25T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:12:22","slug":"esteghlal-played-against-one-of-asias-best-kamalvand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/04\/25\/esteghlal-played-against-one-of-asias-best-kamalvand\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal played against one of Asia\u2019s best: Kamalvand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; JEDDAH, <strong>Esteghlal technical director Faraz Kamalvand believes they have played against one of the best teams in Asia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal and Al-Duhail shared the spoils in a 2-2 draw in the 2021 AFC Champions League Group C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur players played with dedication,\u201d said Kamalvand. \u201cDue to the short period between matches, quality drops and injuries become more likely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAl-Duhail is a strong team, it has international experience and has earned good results. I believe we played against the best team in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe lost some players due to injuries, including Cheick Diabate who had to leave the match, and we played with 10 men at the end,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe made several changes to the plan because of this. At the end, we got one point although we were hoping to get three,\u201d Kamalvand concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; JEDDAH, Esteghlal technical director Faraz Kamalvand believes they have played against one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3323,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239","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=42239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42241,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239\/revisions\/42241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}