{"id":11931,"date":"2011-02-06T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/06\/esteghlal-moves-up-to-ipl-second-place\/"},"modified":"2011-02-06T19:17:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:17:47","slug":"esteghlal-moves-up-to-ipl-second-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/06\/esteghlal-moves-up-to-ipl-second-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal moves up to IPL second place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"MajidiCelebrating1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MajidiCelebrating1.jpg\" height=\"252\" width=\"378\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>In Iran Professional (IPL) Esteghlal shortened the gap between the football team and Zob Ahan to five points.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal beat last-place Steel Azin 3-1 on Sunday at the Azadi Stadium and leapfrogged both Sepahan and Traktorsazi to advance to second place on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal captain Farhad Majidi struck his shot firmly into the net just five minutes into the match but Fereydoon Zandi cancelled out the goal in the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Majidi gave a lead to Esteghlal once again in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that Steel Azin put Esteghlal under pressure but their strikers squandered the chances they got.<\/p>\n<p>Seyyed Salehi scored Esteghlal\u2019s third goal in the 73rd minute when he escaped from the offside trap and opened the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan remains on top of the table with 42 points while Esteghlal is now second with 37 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, In Iran Professional (IPL) Esteghlal shortened the gap between the football team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2834,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931","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=11931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}