{"id":12079,"date":"2011-04-11T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/11\/table-toppers-defeated-in-iran-league\/"},"modified":"2011-04-11T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:03:33","slug":"table-toppers-defeated-in-iran-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/11\/table-toppers-defeated-in-iran-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Table-toppers defeated in Iran league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"divLead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"mazloomi-parviz3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mazloomi-parviz3.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"428\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The top three teams of  the table in the Iranian Premier League (IPL) &#8212; Sepahan, Zob Ahan, and  Esteghlal &#8212; have been downed by their rivals.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>On an action packed Sunday, the league pacesetter Sepahan lost an  away match against Mes of Kerman 3-2, Persepolis of Tehran crushed its  host Zob Ahan 3-0, and Teraktorsazi edged past Esteghlal 2-1 at Tehran&#8217;s  Azadi Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Brazilian striker Luciano Edinho scored the opener for Mes in the  19th minute at Kerman&#8217;s Bahonar Stadium, but Ibrahima Toure leveled the  game just two minutes later.  <\/p>\n<p>Edinho doubled his tally after four minutes to put his side ahead again. <\/p>\n<p>Five minutes into the hour mark, Keyvan Amraei netted the third for  Mes, but 10 minutes before the final whistle Hadi Aqili put in one more  for Sepahan to reduce the deficit for the title defender. <\/p>\n<p>At Isfahan&#8217;s Fouladshahr Stadium, Persepolis blanked Zob Ahan with an attacking style right after the kick off. <\/p>\n<p>The Reds, coached by Ali Daei, created many good scoring chances in  the first half but strikers missed the opportunities until the dying  minutes of the first half. <\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Nouri&#8217;s clear cross found Amir Hossein Feshangchi unmarked  in the box, and an easy late goal by Feshangchi made the Reds leave the  pitch cheering. <\/p>\n<p>Persepolis controlled the tempo in the second half and seven minutes  into the hour mark former Bayern Munich striker Vahid Hashemian scored  his first goal in the current season of IPL with a neat chip-kick to  double the lead for his side. <\/p>\n<p>Nouri also joined the score sheet when he touched Feshangchi&#8217;s free-kick in the 70th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, Teraktorsazi beat Esteghlal in a close match.  <\/p>\n<p>Teraktorsazi&#8217;s Mohammad Nosrati opened the scoring for the visitors, but Mehdi Seyyed Salehi tied the match in the 33rd minute. <\/p>\n<p>With only four minutes on the clock, Iraqi national Karrar Jassim  Mohammed scored on a free-kick to seal the victory for the popular  Tabriz-based club. <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan is leading the 18-team table with 58 points, Zob Ahan is  second with 53, Esteghlal sits third with one point less, while  Teraktorsazi and Persepolis are on the fourth and fifth spots with 50  and 47 points, respectively. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, The top three teams of the table in the Iranian Premier League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3553,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079","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=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}