{"id":11172,"date":"2010-04-19T17:28:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T00:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/19\/esteghlal-moves-up-to-ipl-third-place\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T00:28:03","slug":"esteghlal-moves-up-to-ipl-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/19\/esteghlal-moves-up-to-ipl-third-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal moves up to IPL third place [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"akbarpour-siavash3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/akbarpour-siavash3.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"420\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal of Tehran football team secured third place of the Iran Professional League (IPL) standings on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal beat Zob Ahan of Isfahan 1-0 at the Azadi Stadium and advanced to IPL third place.<\/p>\n<p>Siavash Akbarpour scored Esteghlal\u2019s solitary goal from the penalty spot in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan as title contender showed a poor performance and Esteghlal could have won the match with two or three goals ahead if their strikers had taken advantage of the opportunities they got.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with the way my players played. However, we could have won with more goals,\u201d Esteghlal coach Samad Marfavi said.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, IPL leader Sepahan defeated Rah Ahan 2-0 and is now eight points clear at the top with three weeks remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan has 62 points while Zob Ahan and Esteghlal are in second and third places respectively with 54 and 52 points.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nQONRbOgD4Y\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nQONRbOgD4Y<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal of Tehran football team secured third place of the Iran Professional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3611,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","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=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}