{"id":12597,"date":"2011-12-04T16:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T00:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/04\/blues-extend-lead-atop-ipl-table\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T00:59:24","slug":"blues-extend-lead-atop-ipl-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/04\/blues-extend-lead-atop-ipl-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues extend lead atop IPL table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"MajidiCelebrating1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MajidiCelebrating1.jpg\" height=\"203\" width=\"305\" \/>PTV &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Esteghlal has defeated Shahrdari in the 15th week of the Iranian Premier League (IPL), increasing its gap with the second team of the league table, Teraktorsazi.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Blues edged past Shahrdari 2-1 at Yadegar-e Emam Stadium in the latter&#8217;s northwestern hometown of Tabriz on Saturday to consolidate their place atop the table with 33 points. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal started out well and got the lead 19 minutes into the match, when Arash Borhani found the ball inside the box and tapped in. <\/p>\n<p>Five minutes before the break, Farhad Majidi earned a penalty for the Blues. He himself stepped up and doubled the lead for the IPL pacesetter. <\/p>\n<p>Shahrdari did not make any changes in the score-sheet until the dying minutes of the match, when Mehrdad Ghanbari pulled one back for the hosts. <\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, Zob Ahan was held to a 1-1 draw against Sepasi at its central hometown of Isfahan&#8217;s Fouladshahr Stadium. Mohammad Ghazi scored the opener for Sepasi three minutes to the final whistle, but Mohammad-Mehdi Nazari equalized with just seconds left on the clock. <\/p>\n<p>In other matches of the day, Sepahan and Shahin played out to a 1-1 tie, Mes Sarcheshmeh blanked Mes 2-0, Naft Tehran lost to Naft Abadan 3-1, Foulad and Rah Ahan finished scoreless, and Saba was downed by Damash through a solo. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Persepolis lost its home match against Teraktorsazi 1-0 and Malavan tied 1-1 against Saipa on its own turf in the northern city of Bandar-Anzali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TABRIZ, Esteghlal has defeated Shahrdari in the 15th week of the Iranian Premier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4491,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","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=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}