{"id":52469,"date":"2024-12-01T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52469"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:30:11","slug":"a-tough-task-ahead-of-esteghlal-against-al-ahli-mosimane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/12\/01\/a-tough-task-ahead-of-esteghlal-against-al-ahli-mosimane\/","title":{"rendered":"A tough task ahead of Esteghlal against Al Ahli: Mosimane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team head coach Pitso Mosimane says that there is a tough task ahead of them in the AFC Champions League Elite 2024\/25.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will have to achieve what no team has been able to do so far &#8211; take points off Al Ahli Saudi FC &#8211; when the sides meet on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Arabian side confirmed their knockout stage spot with a fifth consecutive win on Matchday Five while Iran&#8217;s Esteghlal are on four points and in danger of missing the cut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will face a great team and we have to be honest and accept that Al Ahli are a star-studded team but we want to do our best,\u201d Mosimane said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in my team and I am sure we can get result but I am sure it will be a tough match. We will represent Iran football, so we must do our best,\u201d the South African coach concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahli are on a 10-match unbeaten on the continental stage and will look to Riyad Mahrez to provide inspiration yet again, with the Algerian having contributed three goals and five assists so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team head coach Pitso Mosimane says that there is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":52470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal"],"views":1078,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469","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=52469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52472,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52469\/revisions\/52472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}