{"id":44210,"date":"2021-11-12T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44210"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:06:26","slug":"we-worked-hard-to-beat-lebanon-jahanbakhsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/11\/12\/we-worked-hard-to-beat-lebanon-jahanbakhsh\/","title":{"rendered":"We worked hard to beat Lebanon: Jahanbakhsh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; SIDON, <strong>Iran national football team captain Alireza Jahanbakhsh says that they worked hard to defeat Lebanon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli earned a late 2-1 win over Lebanon in Group A of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first goal they scored out of nowhere, (but) we deserved to win,\u201d said the PSV Eindhoven winger. \u201cWe worked hard, we just kept going and didn\u2019t give up, this is the result we get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow (we have taken) one very big step for us forward to the qualification. We knew before the game it was going to be a tough match, but we didn\u2019t think it was going to go this way with the conditions and the wind, not the best quality pitch and everything,\u201d said Jahanbakhsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe knew it before but kept going, we created chances. In the first half we could\u2019ve finished the game but the chances didn\u2019t go in. But thank God the last two goals makes it a win for us and a massive step on the qualification towards the World Cup,\u201d the Iran captain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result leaves Team Melli on 13 points from five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SIDON, Iran national football team captain Alireza Jahanbakhsh says that they worked hard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1512,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44210","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=44210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44212,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44210\/revisions\/44212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}