{"id":12797,"date":"2012-03-10T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T01:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/10\/esteghlal-fights-back-to-draw-rah-ahan-video\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T01:52:01","slug":"esteghlal-fights-back-to-draw-rah-ahan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/10\/esteghlal-fights-back-to-draw-rah-ahan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal fights back to draw Rah Ahan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"daei-coach444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/daei-coach444.jpg\" height=\"257\" width=\"370\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team caught up from two goals behind to draw 2-2 with Rah Ahan in the Iranian Professional League (IPL).<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Saturday, the Blues missed the chance to close the gap on IPL leader Sepahan to two points. <\/p>\n<p>Hossein Abdi scored an early goal for Rah Ahan in the second minute of the match with a powerful shot from outside the penalty area. <\/p>\n<p>Rah Ahan\u2019s Hossein Kazemi was on target in the 16th minute, heading the ball into back of the Esteghlal net. <\/p>\n<p>Jlloyd Samuel pulled a goal back for Esteghlal nine minutes later, kicking a loose ball into the goal. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal defender Pejman Montazeri equalized the match in the 53rd minute. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is second in the IPL standings table with 48 points, four points adrift of Sepahan. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Shahin was held to a 1-1 draw by Sanat Naft and Zob Ahan defeated Saba 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\">goals from Esteghlal&#8217;s draw against Rah Ahan from <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>PFDCTV<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ewsDFBSEO8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ewsDFBSEO8<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team caught up from two goals behind to draw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2880,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797","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=12797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}