{"id":45665,"date":"2022-04-25T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45665"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:01:44","slug":"bild-this-is-how-azmoun-becomes-the-20-million-trump-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/04\/25\/bild-this-is-how-azmoun-becomes-the-20-million-trump-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Bild: This is how Azmoun becomes the 20 million trump card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bild.de &#8211; LEVERKUSEN, <strong>A goal redemption for him and the whole club!<\/strong> <strong>Sardar Azmoun brings Bayer Leverkusen back to third place.\u00a0The winter purchase from St. Petersburg cost EUR 2.5 million \u2013 the striker is slowly recouping the fee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian World Cup candidate celebrated his goal debut in the 4-1 win in F\u00fcrth because he provoked Andreas Linde&#8217;s mistake and cheekily exploited it to make it 2-1.\u00a0Paulinho made it 3-1 with a super assist from the Iranian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That was a foretaste of his qualities, not just his nose for goals,&#8221; says sporting director Simon Rolfes to BILD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fight for the Champions League, Azmoun can become the 20 million trump card if they qualify for the group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Of course I&#8217;m happy about my debut goal,&#8221; Azmoun explained happily, &#8220;but for me it&#8217;s just about giving everything in the current tough games.\u00a0The most important thing is that we got the win because we want to go to the Champions League.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Gerardo Seoane had bet on Azmoun as a tenth and was right: &#8220;Sardar set impulses in the last third with his runs, with good decisions.\u00a0He has impressively demonstrated that we have more offensive potential with him, although we were a bit more vulnerable defensively.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, the plan with Azmoun worked and, after two games without scoring, brought Leverkusen back on track in the tight race for the premier class.\u00a0Also striking: Especially in the first half, the interaction with Patrik Schick worked really well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sardar is still missing the last 10, 15 percent explosiveness,&#8221; says Seoane, &#8220;that will probably not change in the short term.&#8221; Bayer&#8217;s coach had recently said that the Iranian would need &#8220;complete preparation&#8221; to get to the top level physically.\u00a0But one thing is clear: Azmoun is on the right track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bild.de &#8211; LEVERKUSEN, A goal redemption for him and the whole club! Sardar Azmoun brings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2583,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665","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=45665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45667,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665\/revisions\/45667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}