{"id":13571,"date":"2013-01-25T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=13571"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T22:11:26","slug":"persepolis-frustrated-in-stalemate-against-esteghlal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/01\/25\/persepolis-frustrated-in-stalemate-against-esteghlal-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis frustrated in stalemate against Esteghlal [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis was left to rue a poor finishing after a goalless draw against Esteghlal in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neither Esteghlal nor Persepolis was able to produce a goal in the first half. The Iranian giants played a lackluster game in front of about 100,000 spectators in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Persepolis was the better team and created some chances but its strikers failed to score.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lacked cutting edge in this match. Persepolis should have won the match, however, I am satisfied with our players,\u201d Persepolis coach Yahya Golmohammadi said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, relegation-threatened Gahar lost to Sepasi 3-0 in its home game, Aluminium edged Saipa, defending champion Sepahan beat struggling Paykan 2-0, Traktorsazi was held 1-1 by visiting Zob Ahan, Saba defeated Sanat Naft 3-2, Damash lost 1-0 to visiting Mes, Foolad beat Rah Ahan 2-1 in a home game and Naft defeated Malavan 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal maintained its lead at the top of the IPL table with 43 points, followed by Traktorsazi and Foolad.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary defender of AC Milan and Italy, Franco Baresi, who has been invited by Persepolis club, attended the match.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 76 times, with Esteghlal winning 24 games, Persepolis taking 18 victories, and 34 matches ending in draw.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the extended match highlights from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PFDC TV<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58190170\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58190170<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58194032\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58194032<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis was left to rue a poor finishing after a goalless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3009,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13571","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=13571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}