{"id":1059420,"date":"2025-03-15T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T07:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipna.ir\/?p=1059420"},"modified":"2025-03-15T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T07:30:42","slug":"2nd-leg-what-they-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/?p=1059420","title":{"rendered":"2nd Leg: What they said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As excitement intensifies for Monday&#8217;s knockout stage draw at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, we take a look at what the eight quarter-finalists had to say after winning the respective Round of 16 ties.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd SC head coach Felix Sanchez after the Qatari side sealed a first appearance at the quarter-final since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Joint leading scorer Anderson Lopes believes 2023\/24 runners-up Yokohama F. Marinos can erase last season&#8217;s disappointment by lifting the title.<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Pioli on Al Nassr Club&#8217;s performance so far, with the head coach determined to erase last season&#8217;s quarter-final exit.<\/p>\n<p>Osmar Loss wasn&#8217;t satisfied despite his Buriram United beating Johor Darul Ta&#8217;zim at their Sultan Ibrahim Stadium fortress to book a quarter-final ticket for only the second time.<\/p>\n<p>The in-form Riyad Mahrez is determined Al Ahli Saudi FC maximise home ground advantage in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Left-back Asahi Sasaki explaining Kawasaki Frontale&#8217;s phenomenal performance against Shanghai Shenhua, with the Japanese side winning 4-0 after having lost the first leg by a solitary goal.<\/p>\n<p>The mercurial Salem Al Dawsari explaining Al Hilal SFC&#8217;s mentality after the four-time champions overcame a first leg deficit against Pakhtakor to advance in style.<\/p>\n<p>Jasir Asani wants debutants Gwangju FC to keep striving after their remarkable come-from-behind win against Vissel Kobe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As excitement intensifies for Monday&#8217;s knockout stage draw at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, we take a look at what the eight quarter-finalists had to say after winning the respective Round of 16 ties. Al Sadd SC head coach Felix Sanchez after the Qatari side sealed a first appearance at the quarter-final since 2019. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1059421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20967],"tags":[3733,28042],"class_list":["post-1059420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-news","tag-afc","tag-afc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059423,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059420\/revisions\/1059423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}