{"id":23365,"date":"2015-11-21T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23365"},"modified":"2015-11-21T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T21:16:06","slug":"persepolis-edges-esteghlal-ahvaz-in-ipl-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/21\/persepolis-edges-esteghlal-ahvaz-in-ipl-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis edges Esteghlal Ahvaz in IPL [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team defeated struggling Esteghlal Ahvaz in the Week 12 of the Iranian Professional League (IPL) on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taremi scored the only goal of the match in the 20th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis put the visiting team under pressure in the second half but its strikers missed their opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, we are among the title-contenders. I am satisfied with our performance as usual,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Asked him about Taremi, who squandered so many chances in the second half, Branko said, \u201cTaremi played well but I think he was exhausted from the long trip from Guam and playing on artificial ground,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved to seventh place with 18 points, seven points behind IPL leader Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MK6GqX-YKIg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MK6GqX-YKIg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team defeated struggling Esteghlal Ahvaz in the Week 12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1631,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}