{"id":23744,"date":"2016-01-01T14:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23744"},"modified":"2016-01-01T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:15:05","slug":"ipl-esteghlal-held-by-malavan-naft-tehran-wins-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/01\/ipl-esteghlal-held-by-malavan-naft-tehran-wins-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal held by Malavan, Naft Tehran wins [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team drew 2-2 with Malavan in the final match of Iran Professional League (IPL) before the winter break. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Anzali\u2019s Takhti Stadium on Friday, Jaber Ansari opened the scoring for Esteghlal just after eight minutes into the match. <\/p>\n<p>Malavan striker Jalal Rafkhaei was on target in the 17th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal youngster Mohsen Karimi found the back of the net with a long-range shot in the 22nd minute. <\/p>\n<p>Malavan put Esteghlal under pressure in the second half and finally equalized the match in the 77th minute after Rafkhaei scored from the penalty spot. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deserved to win the match but our strikers squandered their chances. I am satisfied with the way we played, but not with the final result,\u201d Esteghlal coach Parviz Mazloumi said. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Naft Tehran defeated its host Saba 3-1, Tractor Sazi and Gostaresh finished in a 1-1 draw. Siah Jamegan defeated rock bottom Esteghlal Ahvaz 2-1. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal remains top of IPL with 34 points, followed by Esteghlal Khuzestan and Zob Ahan with 33 and 30 points respectively. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Malavan 2:2 Esteghlal Tehran<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5kCq9MDwTG0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5kCq9MDwTG0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tractor Sazi 1:1 Gostaresh<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e3La4w9x1So\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e3La4w9x1So<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saba 1:3 Naft Tehran<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCQ6d6xJyOE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCQ6d6xJyOE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Siajamegan 2:1 Esteghlal Ahvaz<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bHMb6RJtAXM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bHMb6RJtAXM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team drew 2-2 with Malavan in the final match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1705,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744","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=23744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}