{"id":48247,"date":"2023-02-19T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T17:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48247"},"modified":"2023-02-19T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T17:07:38","slug":"foolad-focused-on-defeating-al-faisaly-nekounam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/02\/19\/foolad-focused-on-defeating-al-faisaly-nekounam\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad focused on defeating Al Faisaly: Nekounam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran\u2019s Foolad coach Javad Nekounam says that they are 100 percent focused to beat Al Faisaly since they are determined to advance to the next stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foolad will play Al Faisaly on Monday in Doha\u2019s Al Thumama Stadium in the AFC Champions League 2022 (West) Round of 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nekounam is counting on his players to reproduce the form that saw them top&nbsp;Group C of the AFC Champions League 2022 against Al Faisaly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have worked hard in terms of preparation as it is very important for us to produce our best. We know it will be a very difficult game but we are focused on our performance,\u201d said Nekounam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nekounam said he expects a tough outing despite Al Faisaly\u2019s status as a First Division team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know they are a good team, and have a good coach. Saudi Arabian football is of a very high level and it will be a very tough match for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHowever, we are 100 percent focused on ourselves and we are determined to advance. We will do our best,\u201d the former Iran captain added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iran\u2019s Foolad coach Javad Nekounam says that they are 100 percent focused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,179,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-foolad-khuzestan","category-iran-first-division"],"views":902,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247","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=48247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48249,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48247\/revisions\/48249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}