{"id":10916,"date":"2010-01-23T22:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T06:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/23\/esteghlal-resumes-third-place-of-ipl\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T22:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T06:13:29","slug":"esteghlal-resumes-third-place-of-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/23\/esteghlal-resumes-third-place-of-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal resumes third place of IPL [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"est-happy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/est-happy.jpg\" height=\"370\" width=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal defeated Steel Azin on Saturday to return to the third place of the Iran Professional League (IPL) standings table.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In the match played at the Azadi Stadium in front of approximately 10,000 spectators, Esteghlal defeated Steel Azin 2-0 and repeated the first leg result.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mehdi Seyyed-Salehi headed the ball into Steel Azin\u2019s goal in the 72nd minute following a pass from Siavash Akbarpour.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Esteghlal\u2019s Pejman Montazeri hit the second goal also with a header four minutes later. He received a superb cross from Khosro Heydari and opened the empty goal.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cThis win surely eased the pressure on our shoulders. I am satisfied with the way we played against Steel Azin,\u201d Estghlal coach Samad Marfavi said in a post-match news conference.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Esteghlal now has 37 points from 24 matches.<br \/> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Sepahan of Isfahan is on the summit of the IPL standings table with 48 points with one game in hand. Zob Ahan sits second with 45 points.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MjV3ngzeqjA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MjV3ngzeqjA<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal defeated Steel Azin on Saturday to return to the third place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3806,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}