{"id":12415,"date":"2011-09-16T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/esteghlal-downs-persepolis-in-tehran-derby\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T01:21:20","slug":"esteghlal-downs-persepolis-in-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/esteghlal-downs-persepolis-in-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal downs Persepolis in Tehran Derby [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2011\/09\/693796_orig.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"371\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal beat archrival Persepolis in the Tehran derby on Friday, thanks to goals from Farhad Majidi and Mojtaba Jabbari.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>In the match, held at the packed Azadi Stadium, Esteghlal defeated Persepolis 2-0 with an excellent performance that took it to the top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) standings.<\/p>\n<p>Majidi gave Esteghlal the lead after 15 minutes. The unmarked Esteghlal captain put the ball into the back of the Persepolis net from inside the six-yard box.<br \/>In the second half, Persepolis took control of the match, but its strikers missed their opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis captain Ali Karimi was brought down by Pejman Montazeri in the penalty box four minutes into the second half, but Mohammad Nouri\u2019s penalty kick fell wide of a goalpost.<\/p>\n<p>Jabbari, who was also chosen as the best player of the match, gave Esteghlal a 2-0 lead in the 82nd minute after an excellent pass from substitute Arash Borhani.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is now on top of the IPL table with 16 points after seven weeks, and Persepolis plummeted to 14th place with a mere six points.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 71 times, with Esteghlal winning 23 games, Persepolis taking 17 victories, and 31 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ha8b56CqL7k\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ha8b56CqL7k<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dkti4DJ4uMg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dkti4DJ4uMg<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhYols9IAK4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rhYols9IAK4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PFDCTV\">Facebook<\/a> !<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal beat archrival Persepolis in the Tehran derby on Friday, thanks to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5374,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}