{"id":38755,"date":"2020-02-27T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38755"},"modified":"2020-02-27T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:28:40","slug":"ipl-persepolis-a-step-closer-to-fourth-successive-title-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/27\/ipl-persepolis-a-step-closer-to-fourth-successive-title-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis a step closer to fourth successive title [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis saw off Shahr Khodro 3-1 to take a step closer to Iran Professional League (IPL) title for the fourth successive time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, the Reds hosted their powerhouse rivals behind closed doors in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vahid Amiri gave Persepolis an early lead in the ninth minute after receiving a pass from Mehdi Torabi in the six-yard area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis second goal came after a throw-in led to a quick exchange of passes which freed Bashar Resan to fire his shot into the roof of the net in the 16th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shahr Khodro pulled a goal back in the 52nd minute courtesy of a header from Farshad Faraji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two minutes after the hour mark, Torabi was brought down in the penalty area and he converted his penalty to seal a 3-1 win for Persepolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shahr Khodro created several scoring chances but Persepolis goalie Bozidar Radosevic made several noteworthy saves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis went seven points clear at top of the IPL table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on the day, Esteghlal suffered a 1-0 loss against Gol Gohar in Sirjan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan were held to a 1-1 draw by Zob Ahan in Isfahan derby, Foolad defeated Shahin Bushehr 1-0 and Machine Sazi lost to Nassaji 3-0 in Tabriz. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OYfsYCSeLpU\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis saw off Shahr Khodro 3-1 to take a step closer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1058,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755","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=38755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38757,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755\/revisions\/38757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}