{"id":19131,"date":"2014-08-25T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19131"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T19:14:38","slug":"esteghlal-moves-top-of-iran-professional-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/25\/esteghlal-moves-top-of-iran-professional-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal moves top of Iran Professional League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal of Tehran moved top of the Iranian Professional League (IPL) with a 3-0 victory over Paykan in a match held at Tehran\u2019s Takhti Stadium on Sunday evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khosro Heydari was on target for the Iranian giant in the 29th minute. Mehdi Karimian extended Esteghlal\u2019s lead in the 53rd minute and Sajjad Shahbazzadeh made it 3-0 in the 61st minute.<\/p>\n<p>The win makes it four wins from five games for Esteghlal and moves the Blues top of the league.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Tractor Sazi of Tabriz earned a 4-2 victory over Saba.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime,Saipa defeated Naft 2-1, Sepahan of Isfahan was held to a 1-1 draw against Foolad, Esteghlal of Khuzestan drew 1-1 with Zob Ahan and Naft Masjed Soleyman and Gostarsh match finished with a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis of Tehran has been scheduled to face Padideh in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal of Tehran moved top of the Iranian Professional League (IPL) with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3402,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131","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=19131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}