{"id":54405,"date":"2026-01-24T22:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54405"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:02:46","slug":"pgpl-persepolis-beat-sepahan-to-move-top-esteghlal-and-zob-ahan-draw-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/01\/24\/pgpl-persepolis-beat-sepahan-to-move-top-esteghlal-and-zob-ahan-draw-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Persepolis beat Sepahan to move top, Esteghlal and Zob Ahan draw [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team defeated Sepahan 2-1 in matchweek 17 of Iran\u2019s Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oston Urunov opened the scoring for the hosts in the 53rd minute, and Ivan Sergeev made it 2-0 in the 72nd minute. Ricardo Alves pulled a goal back in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Esteghlal and Zob Ahan played to a goalless draw in Isfahan. Gol Gohar defeated Fajr Sepasi 2-0, Esteghlal Khuzestan were held to a goalless draw by Paykan, and Chadormalou and Shams Azar Tabriz shared the points in a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved top on 31 points, by virtue of a better goal difference than Sepahan. Tractor are third with 29 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062e\u0644\u0627\u0635\u0647 \u0628\u0627\u0632\u06cc \u067e\u0631\u0633\u067e\u0648\u0644\u06cc\u0633  \u0633\u067e\u0627\u0647\u0627\u0646 | \u0628\u0647 \u0642\u0648\u0644 \u062d\u0628\u06cc\u0628: \u00ab\u0628\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u06cc \u0628\u0631\u0641\u060c \u0628\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u06cc \u0628\u0631\u0641 \u0633\u0646\u06af\u06cc\u0646 \u0628\u0631 \u0645\u0632\u0627\u0631\u0634\u2026\u00bb\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dUKrn_Jv4uA?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><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062e\u0644\u0627\u0635\u0647 \u0628\u0627\u0632\u06cc \u0630\u0648\u0628 \u0622\u0647\u0646 - \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062a\u0647\u0631\u0627\u0646 | \u0647\u0641\u062a\u0647 17 \u0644\u06cc\u06af \u0628\u0631\u062a\u0631 \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nUsKdmKtRc?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team defeated Sepahan 2-1 in matchweek 17 of Iran\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":652,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54405","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=54405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54407,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54405\/revisions\/54407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}