{"id":14318,"date":"2013-04-14T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2013-04-14T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T19:36:17","slug":"esteghlal-sepahan-match-is-title-decider-kranjcar-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/04\/14\/esteghlal-sepahan-match-is-title-decider-kranjcar-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal, Sepahan match is title decider, Kranjcar says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Coach Zlatko Kranjcar has labeled Esteghlal, Sepahan match as the most important game of the Iranian Professional League (IPL), saying the match could be a &#8220;title decider&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With three weeks remaining, leader Esteghlal will host Sepahan in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal could move four points clear of its rival if the team beats Sepahan at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal, Sepahan match is a very important. A decider really,\u201d said Sepahan coach Kranjcar on Sunday during the pre-match news conference in Tehran. \u201cWe will do our best to defeat Esteghlal. At least, we are not allowed to lose this important match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan lost to Al-Ahlai of Saudi Arabia 4-1 in group stage of the AFC Champions League last week; however, the Croat said that they\u2019ve forgotten the heavy loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSepahan is ready to face Esteghlal. We are going to play Esteghlal as we played them in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup and eliminated them at the Azadi Stadium in late March,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Coach Zlatko Kranjcar has labeled Esteghlal, Sepahan match as the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2620,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318","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=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}