{"id":14323,"date":"2013-04-15T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14323"},"modified":"2013-04-15T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:59:07","slug":"esteghlal-held-by-sepahan-in-mouth-watering-encounter-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/04\/15\/esteghlal-held-by-sepahan-in-mouth-watering-encounter-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal held by Sepahan in mouth-watering encounter [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal was held to a 1-1 draw on Monday by Sepahan in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, where the Blues escaped from losing their home game by the skin of their teeth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With two weeks remaining of the Iranian Professional League (IPL), Esteghlal scored an injury time goal to hold Sepahan in a mouth-watering match.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan was reduced to 10 men on 35th minute after defender Farshid Talebi received his second yellow card from referee Saeid Mozaffarizdeh.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Esteghlal put the visiting team under pressure but lacked a cutting edge offense.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal could have moved four points clear of its rival if the team beat Sepahan at home.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal striker Iman Mousavi was sent off by the referee in the 86th minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the injury time, Sepahan defender Reza Irannejad scored an own goal and poured cold water on hopes of the title-holder, but Esteghlal kept alive hopes of winning the title.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal remained at the top of the IPL table with 64 points, one point more than Sepahan.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Tractorsazi drew with Foold 1-1 and struggling Aluminum beat Gahar 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the goals from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PFDC TV<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rf05R5Qv5yk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rf05R5Qv5yk<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal was held to a 1-1 draw on Monday by Sepahan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3378,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323","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=14323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}