{"id":23456,"date":"2015-11-30T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23456"},"modified":"2015-11-30T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T00:47:39","slug":"esteghlal-returns-to-top-ipl-naft-draws-persepolis-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/30\/esteghlal-returns-to-top-ipl-naft-draws-persepolis-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal returns to top IPL, Naft draws Persepolis [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal was held to a 1-1 draw against Saipa in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium but returned to top of the Iran Professional League (IPL). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Jaber Ansari gave Esteghalal a lead in the 62nd minute. He has scored in four consecutive matches for the Blues. <\/p>\n<p>With eight minutes remaining, Ali Zeynal equalized the match. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Persepolis football team was held to a 1-1 draw against Naft Tehran at Takhti Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Milad Kamandani scored for Persepolis in the 40th minute but Mohammad Daneshgar was on target in the 73rd minute for Naft. Persepolis striker Mehdi Taremi missed a penalty in the 69th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Branko Ivankovic men, who had numerous opportunities in this match, fell to 8th place in the league after this draw with 19 points from 13 games. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Foolad secured just its second win of the season after beating Esteghlal Ahwaz 2-1. Tractor Sazi edged past Malavan in Anzali thanks to the 84th minute goal by Hamza Younes. <\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan climbed to third place with a comfortable 3-1 win over Padideh. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Esteghlal Tehran vs. Saipa:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwlsb3SV8u8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwlsb3SV8u8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Naft Tehran vs. Persepolis:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0jUJf9NJl74\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0jUJf9NJl74<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal was held to a 1-1 draw against Saipa in Tehran\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2299,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}