{"id":12361,"date":"2011-08-18T19:13:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T02:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/18\/esteghlal-clinches-3rd-successive-victory\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T19:13:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T02:13:28","slug":"esteghlal-clinches-3rd-successive-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/18\/esteghlal-clinches-3rd-successive-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal clinches 3rd successive victory [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20110818\/fathi20110818101622483.jpg\" height=\"254\" width=\"381\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Tehran&#8217;s popular football squad Esteghlal has gained a 2-0 victory against Fajr Sepasi to  remain in the second spot in Iran&#8217;s Premier League (IPL) at the end of  the fourth week. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues, coached by Parviz Mazloumi, won its third successive  victory at Tehran&#8217;s gigantic Azadi Stadium before more than 60,000  spectators late on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal&#8217;s Kuwaiti halfback Walid Ali took the lead for the host in the 43rd minute of the match.  <\/p>\n<p>Later in the second half, the Blues pushed forward and  managed to score the second goal via Esteghlal&#8217;s 35-year-old captain  Farhad Majidi who took advantage of the visitor&#8217;s goalie&#8217;s mistake in  the 48th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after the match, Mazloumi expressed  satisfaction at the performance of his men but was unhappy with the  team&#8217;s halfback line.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not met our demands yet and are waiting for the return of our injured players,\u201d the club&#8217;s manager said.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=arbjdDlQyH8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=arbjdDlQyH8<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EqgbftwmTIU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EqgbftwmTIU<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wosA30Ucy38\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wosA30Ucy38<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Tehran&#8217;s popular football squad Esteghlal has gained a 2-0 victory against Fajr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4447,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","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=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}