{"id":12114,"date":"2011-04-26T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T01:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/26\/sepahan-saba-tie-goalless-in-ipl\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T18:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T01:08:05","slug":"sepahan-saba-tie-goalless-in-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/26\/sepahan-saba-tie-goalless-in-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan, Saba tie goalless in IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"divLead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"sepahan-tracktor-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sepahan-tracktor-2.jpg\" height=\"243\" width=\"349\" \/>PTV &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>Title defender Sepahan  has played out a goalless draw against Saba in the last game of the  31st week of the Iranian Premier League (IPL).<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Sepahan and Saba finished scoreless at Isfahan&#8217;s Fouladshahr Stadium  on Monday to make the competition even more interesting in the  remaining three weeks of the season. <\/p>\n<p>Both sides got off to a good start but the league leader, coached by  Amir Qalenoei, possessed the ball and the field for most of the first  half and created many good scoring chances over Saba&#8217;s net. <\/p>\n<p>In the second period, much of the game was played in the middle of  the field and the host put pressure on Saba&#8217;s defense on several  occasions but Saba&#8217;s solid defense thwarted Sepahan&#8217;s hopes of extending  the lead on top of the table. <\/p>\n<p>Following a prolonged extra time, the teams had to settle for a 0-0 stalemate after 100 minutes of shots and blocks.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have gotten closer to the title&#8230; Our next three matches  will be very important to us,\u201d Qalenoei said after the match. <\/p>\n<p>Sepahan is leading the 18-team league table with 62 points from 31  games and is followed by Tehran&#8217;s popular soccer squad Esteqlal, under  Parviz Mazloumi, with 58 and Zob Ahan on 56 points. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; ESFAHAN, Title defender Sepahan has played out a goalless draw against Saba in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2905,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","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=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}