{"id":13482,"date":"2013-01-18T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2013-01-18T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T03:02:47","slug":"persepolis-edges-damash-ahead-of-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/01\/18\/persepolis-edges-damash-ahead-of-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis edges Damash ahead of derby [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/247perspolis-defence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13488\" alt=\"247perspolis-defence\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/247perspolis-defence-150x93.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong>\u00a0Persepolis earned a 1-0 hard-fought victory against Damash on Friday ahead of next week derby against arch-rival Esteghlal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, Persepolis striker Gholamreza Rezaei was brought down in penalty area by Damash keeper Milad Farahani and Hossein Mahini converted the penalty in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a difficult match but I am happy because we earned an important victory ahead of derby,\u201d Persepolis coach Yahya Golmohammadi said during the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Ali Karimi and Mehdi Mahdavikia will be fit for the derby, he said, \u201cThey will likely play against Esteghlal but we have to wait two more days to know if they could play or not.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Traktorsazi edged Sanat Naft in an away game and moved up to the first place on goal difference, Paykan lost 3-1 to Naft, visiting Sepahan crushed Saipa, Sepasi was held to a 1-1 draw by Saba and struggling Zob Ahan beat relegation-threatened Gahar 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Malavan will host Esteghlal and Mes face Foolad on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\/?p=6760\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch Week 21\/22 Goals and Interviews on PFDC TV:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"600\" height=\"400\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/s0.videopress.com\/player.swf?v=1.03\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"direct\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"overstretch\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"guid=Px0ygcAb&amp;isDynamicSeeking=true\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/s0.videopress.com\/player.swf?v=1.03\" wmode=\"direct\" seamlesstabbing=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" overstretch=\"true\" flashvars=\"guid=Px0ygcAb&amp;isDynamicSeeking=true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0Persepolis earned a 1-0 hard-fought victory against Damash on Friday ahead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":13483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3263,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482","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=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}