{"id":12856,"date":"2012-04-14T13:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/14\/esteghlal-close-on-sepahans-heels\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:36:59","slug":"esteghlal-close-on-sepahans-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/14\/esteghlal-close-on-sepahans-heels\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal close on Sepahan&#8217;s heels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pyromg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jlloydhazfi478.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"331\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal crushed Saba Battery of Qom today at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran; the result puts Esteghlal a step ahead to grasp the title away from current leader Sepahan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Blues managed to come of to a great start off a Fereydoon Zandi pass, finding defender Pejman Montazeri who made no mistake in sliding the ball past Saba&#8217;s keeper.<\/p>\n<p> Esteghlal&#8217;s goal tally increased to one more after Jlloyd Samuel&#8217;s fantastic cross was met with French striker Goran Jerkovic&#8217;s header.<\/p>\n<p> Three minutes from the break, Meysam Hosseini sealed the deal flawlessly finishing the rebound from Arash Borhani&#8217;s shot.<\/p>\n<p> Esteghlal sits at 58 points after the 3 nil win, just a single point behind defending champions Sepahan. The Blue&#8217;s will go face to face with Shahin Bushehr on the 22nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal crushed Saba Battery of Qom today at the Azadi Stadium in&#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-12856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2995,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856","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=12856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}