{"id":13145,"date":"2012-09-16T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/09\/16\/esteghlal-defeats-rah-ahan\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T20:28:02","slug":"esteghlal-defeats-rah-ahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/09\/16\/esteghlal-defeats-rah-ahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal defeats Rah Ahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arash_borhani\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/arash_borhani.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" height=\"202\" width=\"320\" \/>PRESS TV &#8211; TEHRAN,&nbsp;<b>Esteghlal has defeated Rah Ahan 2-0 in the eighth week of Iran\u2019s Premier League (IPL) to make fans happy after several weeks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> Striker Arash Borhani gave the Blues the lead eight minutes into the match at Azadi stadium in Tehran on Saturday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Rah Ahan\u2019s Bahador Abdi failed to score a penalty shot in the first half and missed the best opportunity of Ali Daei\u2019s side to level the match.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> In the 82nd minute, Meysam Baou doubled the lead to take three points home for Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s players.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Also on Saturday, Zob Ahan claimed a 2-1 victory over Foulad, Fajr Sepasi thrashed Damash 6-1, Saba defeated Gahar Zagros 1-0, and Malavan finished 1-1 with Traktorsazi.<\/p>\n<p> Top three teams in the IPL table are Fajr Sepasi, Naft Tehran, and Sepahan all with 14 points, but Naft Tehran has one game in hand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> On Sunday, Persepolis takes on Naft Tehran at Azadi stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS TV &#8211; TEHRAN,&nbsp;Esteghlal has defeated Rah Ahan 2-0 in the eighth week of Iran\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":12041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2621,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/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=13145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}