{"id":12170,"date":"2011-05-22T05:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/22\/esteghlal-finishes-runner-up-in-ipl\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T05:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:50:20","slug":"esteghlal-finishes-runner-up-in-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/22\/esteghlal-finishes-runner-up-in-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal finishes runner-up in IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"arash_borhani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/arash_borhani.jpg\" height=\"246\" width=\"389\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal has blanked  Pas Hamedan with two goals in the last week of Iran&#8217;s Premier League  (IPL) to cement the second place in the standings.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p> Esteghlal showed a good football at Hamedan&#8217;s Ghods Stadium on Friday and managed to stand second in the 10 edition of the IPL. <\/p>\n<p>The capital-based club opened the scoring in the 36th minute through  an outstanding overhead kick into Pas&#8217;s empty net by Arash Borhani. <\/p>\n<p>Captain Farhad Majidi doubled the tally for the Blues about 10 minutes to the final whistle to seal the victory for the guests. <\/p>\n<p>The result sees Pas going down to Iran&#8217;s first division. <\/p>\n<p>The 34th week of the IPL wrapped up with eight other matches on Friday.  <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan, which had already won the title last week, lost to Saipa  2-1 in Karaj, but lifted the IPL cup and celebrated its second  consecutive championship.  <\/p>\n<p>Karim Ansarifard scored the opener for Saipa in the 34th minute and  doubled the lead only six minutes later. Sepahan&#8217;s Serbian forward  Milorad Janjus then reduced the deficit one minute to hour mark.    <\/p>\n<p>In another match, Persepolis thrashed Peykan 5-1 at Tehran&#8217;s Azadi  Stadium to finish fourth in the standings. The loss sent Peykan to  Iran&#8217;s first division. <\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, Zob Ahan defeated the already-relegated Steel Azin 2-0 to take the third place in the table. <\/p>\n<p>Teraktorsazi overpowered Naft Abadan 3-1 to claim the fifth spot of the IPL table, and Naft Tehran edged past Shahin 1-0. <\/p>\n<p>Foulad also downed Shahrdari 2-0, Malavan beat Saba with the same result, and Rah Ahan and Mes played out a 2-2 draw. <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan won the championship with 66 points, Esteghlal stood second  one point shy of Sepahan, Zob Ahan is third on 63 points, and Persepolis  finished fourth with 58 points. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal has blanked Pas Hamedan with two goals in the last week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3060,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12170","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=12170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}