{"id":45389,"date":"2022-03-28T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45389"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:30:26","slug":"iran-taking-nothing-for-granted-against-lebanon-dragan-skocic-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/03\/28\/iran-taking-nothing-for-granted-against-lebanon-dragan-skocic-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran taking nothing for granted against Lebanon: Dragan Skocic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football team coach Dragan Skocic says that they will take nothing for granted against Lebanon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragan Skocic\u2019s side &#8211; who qualified for Qatar 2022 weeks ago &#8211; will welcome back Alireza Jahanbakhsh, who missed Thursday\u2019s 2-0 defeat to Korea Republic due to COVID-19, while Sardar Azmoun is expected to lead the line in the absence of Mehdi Taremi, who also returned a positive test prior to the match in Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will be held in Mashhad&#8217;s Emam Reza Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We respect Lebanon but we are a stronger team, however, we will not take nothing for granted against them,&#8221; Skocic said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our players must take the game seriously. We still have a chance to finish the group as leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some people criticized the National Team for losing to South Korea in Seoul and I am happy the expectations have risen but we have already earned big wins against Iraq and Bahrain,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to make excuses but we played against Korea without our seven key players. But I am satisfied with what we have done in the qualification so far,&#8221; Skocic concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football team coach Dragan Skocic says that they will take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1429,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389","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=45389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45392,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45389\/revisions\/45392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}