{"id":10890,"date":"2021-09-21T18:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=151499"},"modified":"2021-09-21T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:39:57","slug":"atk-mohan-bagan-set-to-face-fc-nasaf-in-the-afc-cup-inter-zone-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/atk-mohan-bagan-set-to-face-fc-nasaf-in-the-afc-cup-inter-zone-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"ATK Mohan Bagan set to face FC Nasaf in the AFC Cup Inter-Zone semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ATK Mohan Bagan is set to start the AFC Cup Inter-Zone semifinal clash against Uzbekistan\u2019s FC Nasaf in unfamiliar territory against their daunting opponents tomorrow at 8:30 PM IST. ATK who are now without their central defender Sandesh Jinghan saw the Mariners draw the game against the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bashundhara Kings which was enough to see them through to the South Asian Zonal Champions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sandesh had left ATK to sign a deal with the Croatian side Sibenik earlier this year on the 18th of August.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The absence of Hugo Boumos after being omitted from the squad made way for the newly signed midfielder Joni Kauko who has previously featured in the UEFA Euro 2020 in all of Finland\u2019s group games earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dubai \u2708\ufe0f Uzbekistan \u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mariners?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mariners<\/a> are en route to the venue for the crucial <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFCCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFCCup<\/a> fixture! \ud83d\udc9a\u2764\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ATKMohunBagan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ATKMohunBagan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoyMohunBagan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JoyMohunBagan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndianFootball?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndianFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Wdk0CKVYe\">pic.twitter.com\/7Wdk0CKVYe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohun Bagan Super Giant (@mohunbagansg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mohunbagansg\/status\/1439515570605461506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ATK Mohan Bagan has left for Uzbekistan via Dubai in hopes to advance to the Inter-Zonal Final against Hong Kong\u2019s Lee Man FC next month. The Indian side has been out of domestic league action since March having played only three AFC Cup group games in August as their only competitive matches in well over six months. Despite the lack of preparation in competitive matches, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antonio Lopez Haba\u2019s men hope to make the most up for it in the talent and ambition that the squad bring out every time they step onto the field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The highly dangerous duo of David Williams and Roy Krishna has proven to be very efficient in attack after combining for three of the team\u2019s six goals during the group stages in the AFC Cup while the newly signed Amrinder Singh looks to build a good and positive start for his new team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATK Mohan Bagan is set to face FC Nasaf in the AFC Cup Inter-Zone semifinal in Uzbekistan tomorrow at 8:30 PM IST. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":33366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2127,2058,1017,2589],"class_list":["post-10890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-afc-cup","tag-atk-mohan-bagan","tag-indian-football","tag-roy-krishna"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}