{"id":11396,"date":"2010-08-06T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/06\/zob-ahan-hold-esteghlal-1-1-video\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:59:48","slug":"zob-ahan-hold-esteghlal-1-1-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/06\/zob-ahan-hold-esteghlal-1-1-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Zob Ahan hold Esteghlal 1-1 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"zobahan_castro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/zobahan_castro.jpg\" height=\"238\" width=\"366\" \/>AFC &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>A 1-1 draw with Esteghlal saw AFC Champions League quarter-finalists Zob  Ahan jump to the top of the Iran Pro League table after three rounds on  Thursday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mansour Ebrahimzadeh\u2019s charges were trailing in the first half  when Farhad Majidi put Esteghlal ahead four minutes before half time but  Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Farimani restored the parity 12 minutes from  time.<\/p>\n<p>Ebrahimzadeh, however, was not happy with the result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur target is to win the league title and we should not drop points in home games,\u201d he said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarning  points at the beginning of the season is vital and we have to be more  cautious to keep our hopes alive towards the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal  used four defenders and three defensive midfielders to try and control  the game. They had an eye on counterattacks which paid off when they  scored the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan will host defending Asian champions  Korea Republic\u2019s Pohang Steelers in the first leg of their ACL  quarter-finals on September 15 before travelling to Pohang for the  return leg a week later.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Watch the full highlights on <span style=\"color: #339966;\">PFDCTV<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O5Mc_yyQ4ls\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O5Mc_yyQ4ls<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ESFAHAN, A 1-1 draw with Esteghlal saw AFC Champions League quarter-finalists Zob Ahan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2609,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}