{"id":52294,"date":"2024-11-03T19:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T03:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52294"},"modified":"2024-11-03T19:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T03:56:47","slug":"persepolis-determined-to-beat-al-gharafa-garrido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/11\/03\/persepolis-determined-to-beat-al-gharafa-garrido\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis determined to beat Al Gharafa: Garrido"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>Juan Carlos Garrido says that the Persepolis players are eager to earn their first win in the AFC Champions League Elite 2024\/25 Monday night against Al Gharafa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis and Al Gharafa both desperately need a win when they face off in the match at the Al Maktoum Stadium<\/p>\n<p>With only the top eight teams to advance to the knockout stage, the Qatari side sit in seventh on three points while Persepolis are two adrift in 10th spot.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will be desperate to revive their campaign, with the two-time AFC Champions League runners-up still seeking their first win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 1-0 defeat to Qatar&#8217;s Al Sadd SC on Matchday Three extended their winless run on the continent to six games, their longest stretch ever without a victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I would like to say that I am very happy to be here in Dubai. We have a very important match against Al Gharafa and we are well aware that how important the match is,\u201d Garrido said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a great atmosphere in the team. Our players are determined to win the match because they want to secure their place in the tournament\u2019s next stage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to win the match, that\u2019s why we are here. Our players are determined to defeat their opponents. Iran is a football-loving nation and the country has so many talented players. The key to success is to show how strong they are,\u201d the Spanish coach concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Juan Carlos Garrido says that the Persepolis players are eager to earn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":52295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","category-persepolis"],"views":417,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52296,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52294\/revisions\/52296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}