{"id":11730,"date":"2010-12-22T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/22\/shock-defeats-for-tehran-giants\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:02:50","slug":"shock-defeats-for-tehran-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/22\/shock-defeats-for-tehran-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock defeats for Tehran giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"IPL_Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IPL_Logo.jpg\" height=\"335\" width=\"250\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis suffered its fifth successive defeat in the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis was beaten 4-1 by Saba Battery at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in front of less than 1000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Farzad Hatami scored Saba\u2019s first goal just two minutes into the match. Vahid Hamdinejad doubled the score in the 28th minute. Saeid Bayat scored visitors\u2019 third goal, opening an empty net.<\/p>\n<p>Saba\u2019s defender was sent off five minutes into the second half but Hamdinejad scored once again in the 60th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis\u2019 Sepehr Heydari scored a consolation goal during the added time.<\/p>\n<p>It was Persepolis\u2019 fifth successive loss in the IPL. The Tehran-based team had already lost to Mes, Sepahan, Paykan and Shahrdari of Tabriz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foolad stuns Esteghlal in IPL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foolad of Khuzestan football team edged Esteghlal in the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>IPL\u2019s second-placed team lost to Foolad 4-1 at the Takhti Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Siamak Sarlak gave a lead to Foolad in the 16th minute. Arash Afshin scored Foolad\u2019s second goal in the 31st minute. Reza Noroozi opened Esteghlal\u2019s goal four minutes later, and Reza Hamoudi rubbed salt into the Tehran-based team\u2019s wound in the 38th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal pulled a goal back from the penalty spot in the 63rd minute by Farzad Ashoobi.<br \/>The team\u2019s arch-rival Persepolis was defeated by Saba 4-1 at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>IPL leader Zob Ahan beat Mes of Kerman 1-0 in another match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis suffered its fifth successive defeat in the Iran Professional League (IPL)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4111,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730","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=11730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}