{"id":13553,"date":"2013-01-24T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=13553"},"modified":"2013-01-25T02:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:40:38","slug":"teraktorsazi-tabble-toppers-despite-a-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/01\/24\/teraktorsazi-tabble-toppers-despite-a-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Sazi table-toppers despite draw [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TABRIZ\/ESFAHAN, <strong>The Azari powerhouse Tractor Sazi Tabriz and the former Iranian champion Zob Ahan Esfahan shared points in an entertaining 1-1 draw infront of 30,000 spectators at the Yadegare Emam Stadium on Thursday afternoon.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe home side took the lead in the 23rd minute by a goal from the Portuguese legionnaire Flavio Paixao. Zob Ahan&#8217;s answer came in the early minutes of the second half of the match by Mohsen Mosalman (53&#8242;).<\/p>\n<p>Another favorite for the title celebrated an easy 2-0 victory at Fooladshahr. The former Asian Championsleague finalist Sepahan Esfahan defeated Peykan at home by goals from midfield star Mohammad Navidkia (63&#8242;) and the Iranian national team striker Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari (90&#8242;).<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan remains in third position with 40 points while Tractor Sazi temporarily replaced Esteghlal Tehran as table-toppers of the Persian Gulf Cup (PGL) due to a better goal difference despite equal points (42).<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will face Persepolis Tehran at the 76th edition of the famous Tehran battle on Friday afternoon at the Tehran Azadi Stadium, most certainly infront of a fully packed Azadi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The results of the 23rd round of PGL:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Aluminium Hormozgan<\/strong> 1-0 (0-0) Saipa Alborz<\/p>\n<p>Gahar Zagros 0-3 (0-2)\u00a0<strong>Fajr Sepasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saba Qom\u00a0<\/strong>3-2 (1-0) Sanat Naft<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matches remaining:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Damash Gilan &#8211; Mes Kerman<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal &#8211; Persepolis<\/p>\n<p>Foolad Khuzestan &#8211; Rah Ahan<\/p>\n<p>Naft Tehran &#8211; Malavan Anzali<\/p>\n<p>Below come the highlights from Tractor vs. Zob Ahan and Sepahan vs. Paykan from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PFDC TV<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58111201\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58111201<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58112341\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58112341<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TABRIZ\/ESFAHAN, The Azari powerhouse Tractor Sazi Tabriz and the former Iranian champion Zob&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":13554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3412,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","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=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}