{"id":21489,"date":"2015-05-15T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21489"},"modified":"2015-05-15T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T03:13:16","slug":"persepolis-beat-esteghlal-to-win-80th-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/15\/persepolis-beat-esteghlal-to-win-80th-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis beat Esteghlal to win 80th Tehran derby [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis, a popular Iranian soccer team, have managed to beat their arch-rival Esteghlal in the 80th cross-town derby of Tehran as the two soccer giants in the country ended their pro-league season on lower-than-expected rankings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali Alipour\u2019s 65th-minute goal was enough to seal Persepolis\u2019 victory against Esteghlal at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds mostly went on the defensive late in the match, with Esteghlal\u2019s players ferociously fighting to level the score-line. However, Turaj Haqverdi\u2019s final whistle left the Blues empty-handed in front of more than 50,000 spectators attending the game.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014-2015 Persian Gulf pro league is to finish later in the day, with Traktorsazi from Tabriz and Naft of Tehran heading to a difficult race to claim the title. Before the derby, Esteghlal and Persepolis sat 6th and 9th in the table.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alipour 1 0 Perspolis Vs Esteghlal www fifadl com\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mY8DGh3_xlg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis, a popular Iranian soccer team, have managed to beat their arch-rival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":21424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2402,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489","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=21489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}