{"id":12042,"date":"2011-03-30T21:37:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/30\/esteghlal-beats-persepolis-in-tehran-derby\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T21:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:37:16","slug":"esteghlal-beats-persepolis-in-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/30\/esteghlal-beats-persepolis-in-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal beats Persepolis in Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"arash_borhani\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/arash_borhani.jpg\" height=\"246\" width=\"389\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated Persepolis in the 70th Tehran derby on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal beat its archrival Persepolis 1-0 in the Iran\u2019s Professional League (IPL) in front of about 65000 fans at the Azadi Stadium. Arash Borhani\u2019s headed the ball into the back of the net in the 43rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis kept control of the match in the second half but its strikers missed their opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe created so many chances against Esteghlal but our players didn\u2019t take advantage of their opportunities. However, I am proud of our performance. In my opinion, we were the better team and didn\u2019t deserve to lose,\u201d Persepolis coach Ali Daei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams observed a minute of silence for the victims of Japan&#8217;s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami before the game began.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played together 70 times in which Esteghlal has won 22 times, lost 17 times and 31 matches ended in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal remains third with 52 points behind Sepahan and Zob Ahan in IPL standing table while Persepolis is fifth with 44 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team defeated Persepolis in the 70th Tehran derby on Wednesday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5530,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","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=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}