{"id":13604,"date":"2013-01-29T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=13604"},"modified":"2013-01-29T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T02:13:07","slug":"esteghlal-blanks-paykan-in-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/01\/29\/esteghlal-blanks-paykan-in-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal blanks Paykan in IPL [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0<strong>Esteghlal football team earned a comfortable 3-0 victory over struggling Paykan in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) on Tuesday to move three points clear at the top.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nEsteghlal Bolivian striker Vicente Arze opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Farzad Hatami doubled the lead just after the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal captain Farhad Majidi came off the bench to score his first goal in the 78th minute since he joined the Blues in the transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal remained at the top of the IPL table with 46 points, followed by Traktorsazi with 43 points.<br \/>\n\u201cI am satisfied with this victory and I think we played well in the second half. However, I think some people are not interested in seeing our achievement,\u201d Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei said.<\/p>\n<p>Sepasi drew 0-0 with Sepahan, Malavan defeated Damash 3-1 in Rasht\u2019s derby, Mes and Aluminum played out a goalless draw, Rah Ahan was held to a goalless draw by Saipa, relegation-threatened Sanat Naft and Gahar drew 0-0, Zob Ahan lost to Naft 1-0 and Saba was held to a goalless draw by Traktorsazi.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will host Foolad on Wednesday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paykan fired coach Abdollah Veisi before Esteghlal match<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAbdollah Veisi\u2019s short-lived reign came to an end when he was fired only eight months after appointing the Paykan coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran-based club dismissed the coach following the poor results in the Iranian Professional League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>Veisi, who steered Saba to fourth place in Iran Professional League last year, had taken charge of Paykan team on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Former Esteghlal coach Firooz Karimi replaced Veisi in Paykan until the end of the season.<br \/>\nPaykan is 16th in the IPL standings table, six points above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the highlights of Peykan vs Esteghlal on <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>PFDC TV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/58503153\">http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/58503153<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0Esteghlal football team earned a comfortable 3-0 victory over struggling Paykan in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":13605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3979,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604","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=13604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}